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Dan Hicks

@profdanhicks.bsky.social

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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

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...

www.penguin.co.uk

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

Good point!

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 1d

Good stuff takes a while. Really it's that simple.

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

We partly get the social media experience we curate for, but Bluesky does have in some curations, the potential for community we used to have elsewhere.

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

by the way if any of you are still holding out on that fascist app, now might be the moment to delete (not just pause) your account—take it from someone who waved goodbye to 50k+ followers it was worth it ✨❤️

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

the point being that for those of us who joined twitter in like 2009 or 2010 it took a few years to become what it did, obviously until it was destroyed in late 2022

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! It was much better in like 2009

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

Social media without the fascist bots and droogs? Sounds good to me ❤️

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how it feels to you lot, but for me @bsky.app is slowly starting to rebuild some of the community feeling we once had on twitter/ x 💥🔥🙏

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 1d

Leiden this Thursday/Friday www.materialculture.nl/en/events/re...

Rethinking the Restitutionary Moment: What Next?

Final Conference | November 27-28, 2025 | Grote Zaal, Wereldmuseum LeidenThe multi-year research project Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums draws to a c...

www.materialculture.nl

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The Conflict, Violence & Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social · 1d

We're excited to welcome Prof Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social to Royal Holloway tomorrow for his talk: ‘Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting’, chaired by CVTRC Senior Fellow Dr Patrick Doyle.
Attendance is open to all.
📆25 Nov, 5:15-6:30pm in Shilling Lecture Theatre

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 5d

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 6d

From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 8d

a British government looting refugees displaced from former colonial protectorates now is it?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister

Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

www.theguardian.com

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 10d

ICYMI: The Oxford University Press has begun a collective consultation process, which The Bookseller understands, if approved, would result in 113 redundancies 👇 #BookSky

Oxford University Press enters collective consultation 'proposing 113 redundancies'

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 11d

I found myself on the cover of the new issue of Museums Journal —
they sent a photographer to snap me outside the British Museum!🙃

check it out for my piece on ancestral human remains, guest-edited by Gary Younge ✨

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 12d

(2/2) “Restitution can't be reduced to soft diplomacy or "art-washing" the reputations of institutions or companies - returns are always about what happens next."

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 12d

My full unedited quote also said: “The actions of AngloGold Ashanti are a reminder that restitution is always the necessary but insufficient first step in addressing the unfinished nature of extractivism, dispossession and corporate colonialism.” (1/2)

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 12d

‘Dan Hicks told The Art Newspaper “While the UK's Culture Secretary continues to stall on progress on allowing national museums to make returns on a case-by-case basis, British non-national museums and even private individuals are moving ahead with returns"’
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/p...

Private collectors’ return of artefacts to Ghana highlights UK's inaction on restitution, heritage experts say

British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti have retuned objects to Ghana's Asante Kingdom

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · 14d

The Migrant Futures Institute is delighted to host
@profdanhicks.bsky.social this Friday to talk about his latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Dan Hicks: Every Monument Will Fall

The Migrant Futures Institute is delighted to host Professor Dan Hicks to talk about his latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting.

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 15d

really great to meet you at last Marie — thank you so much for coming along!

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 15d

So great to see @profdanhicks.bsky.social at the People's Bookshop in Durham where he was chatting about his book Every Monument Will Fall. Looking forward to reading it!

A room of people in a book shop

Dan hicks talking to a room of people in a bookshop

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15d

Good news for once
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...

Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics

The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 15d

Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal.

Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.

One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall

Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 15d

💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...

One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall

Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 15d

Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.

One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall

Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15d

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?