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Dan Hancox
@danhancox.bsky.social
Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.substack.com/
Sincere thanks Phlegm! If that is even your real name
January 19, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Loool ffs and thank you - a typo i am apparently so uniquely blind to that i missed it in both the substack i proofread 20 times, and your reply here 🤦 thanks for persevering in the face of my idiot brain, will correct that now!
January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Thanks so much! I mean yeah technically it's monochrome I guess? Rather than entirely black. That is what he wore tho 🤷
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
hahaha - yes i am always saying this ;)
January 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Lol amazing thank you
January 11, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Reposted by Dan Hancox
Really good article about a history I knew very little about.

But that’s not just me being ignorant.

As Dan put it (in DMs), ‘The Pact of Forgetting is a thing with capital letters and its own Wikipedia page.’

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of...
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Reposted by Dan Hancox
“Franco died not in a ditch but in bed, as a victor, and he left behind this legacy: that justice would not to be served, that the amnesty law would be signed, that everyone would be pardoned and that his successors would sign up to a pact of silence – of forgetting.”

— Andrés Rebolledo Barreno
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Aw thanks Amy! I will never entirely abandon said bs
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is the only kind of "collab" I'm interested in, thank you Bobby
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thanks very much John
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Thanks so much for making it happen Debbie!
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Thanks Jacob! It came out of exactly this discombobulating feeling yes!!
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM