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Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks

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Dan Hicks, is a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. His research is focused on contemporary archaeology, material culture studies, historical archaeology, colonial history, heritage studies, and the history of art, archaeology, anthropology, and museum collections. .. more

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Aug 15

Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting — out now www.penguin.co.uk/books/452252...

Every Monument Will Fall

Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, Every Monument Will Fall joins the dots between the building of statues, the founding of academic disciplines...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 8h

It’s Badenoch not Jenrick this time 🙃

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 9h

“Britain must never become a multicultural country” — the absolute state of the UK’s Official Opposition right now
conservativehome.com/2025/10/08/f...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

(2/2) sign the petition: Tell Your MP: Don't Rip Up Our Rights actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is a treaty Churchill helped create in the ashes of World War II

It protects our rights to protest, to a fair trial, to privacy, family life, safety from torture or degrading treatment

Farage and now the Tories want to take Britain out of it (1/2)

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 1d

feels like relevant territory, as we struggle to move past historic evasion and euphemism

a quote by Orwell from 'Being Jewish After The Destruction Of Gaza' by Peter Beinart

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 1d

Just got into Lille - it sends its love to you in the form of aggression by dead white coloniser - am sure you don’t want me to take a photograph of his statue!😆😆😂😂

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

ha! 🙃🤣

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if you remember but some time ago I said that we'd have something to share soon.

Anyway, it's this

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 2d

Great to see this cross-community response to Mr Jenrick

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 2d

Very glad to hear arrests have been made — best wishes to the great team at St Fagans
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Two men arrested following burglary at St Fagans museum - BBC News

The men are in custody in Northamptonshire as police continue to search for the stolen jewellery.

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 2d

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 2d

Veteran statue-hugger and former letter-writer to museums pitching to be the next pound-shop Enoch Powell

every Brummie understands what racist trash this is from the Shadow Lord Chancellor—and if you don’t know our second city here’s your prompt to pay a visit!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 4d

💥this Wednesday, 3pm — me and @profsunnysingh.bsky.social in conversation with Jendella Benson at the Henley Literary Festival
tickets >> www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/hic...

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 4d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 6d

sounds good!

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 6d

Readings, Malvern #HistBookChat

Dan Hicks, Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting.

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the connection Richard. Hope all is well with you, and hope our paths cross again before too long. And hello Donovan!

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 6d

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

Flyer of Decolonial Queer Thinking. Image by Mario Patiño, artist. Image of a person of colour with a white veil and naked torso with a flower in their mouth.

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 6d

link to the Times article here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 6d

next time you hear someone talking about culture warriors attacking our museums remind them of this

“The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison using the email address giftgirl2025 and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something”

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
The departure of Todd Arrington, who led the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, came after the administration sought a sword from its collection as a gift for King Charles.

The request for a gift for King Charles came
from a State Department liaison who used the email address "giftgirl2025" and initially told the museum that they were looking for
"like a sword or something," according to a person familiar with the discussions.
As it happens, shortly before the Trump administration's failed efforts to secure a sword from the Eisenhower library, two other Eisenhower swords went on view in a temporary display at the Nixon library.
According to a news release, they are on loan from Julie Nixon Eisenhower, a daughter of President Nixon, who married the grandson of President Eisenhower.
They include a "Sword of Honor" given to him in 1947 by the City of London

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 7d

President Trump says he is meeting today with Russ Vought, OMB director and "of PROJECT 2025 Fame," to discuss cuts to "Democrat Agencies."

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 7d

This episode is free, public, and available wherever you listen to podcasts!

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This Guy Sucked: George Pitt-Rivers with Dan Hicks

Claire and Prof. Dan Hicks bring (more) shame on the name Pitt-Rivers, and make an argument for unburying all of the archival bodies.GuestOur guest Dan Hicks is a Professor of Contemporary Archaeol...

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 7d

TODAY ON TGS: I was joined by the brilliant Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social to talk partly about George Pitt-Rivers, but also partly about the way powerful people marginalize others both before and after they die.

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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 8d

If you haven't grown up with VOA or RFERL, here is why they matter - according to #TheGlobalJigsaw:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 8d

he’s an FRS, not an HonFRS, so he shouldn’t be above the rules. (See for example David Starkey, no longer an FSA)

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 8d

here is a transcript of what E. Musk FRS said at the Unite the Kingdom rally—why has he not been expelled from the Society? Mr Musk is in clear breach of your regulations. bsky.app/profile/prof...

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 25d

I couldn't find a full transcript of the Musk conversation with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) at yesterday’s London demonstration so I made one myself

many shocking bits to this but perhaps especially the rhetoric of English villages under attack from “marauding"

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 8d

tone deaf from the Royal Society on E. Musk FRS

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 8d

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 8d

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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