Dan Hicks
@profdanhicks.bsky.social
Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
remarkable, widespread misreporting on Grok — the undress abuse function not been removed, just according to X “geoblocked in those jurisdictions where it's illegal”—which surely means it remains for any users with a VPN app?
January 15, 2026 at 8:10 AM
remarkable, widespread misreporting on Grok — the undress abuse function not been removed, just according to X “geoblocked in those jurisdictions where it's illegal”—which surely means it remains for any users with a VPN app?
Oxford's monument to the origins of Apartheid still stands on High Street, despite Oriel College’s democratic decision relocate it. How can this image of Rhodes still be here, when Rhodes has fallen in Lusaka (1964), Bulawayo (1980) & Cape Town (2015)? Now there's a question. #everymonumentwillfall
January 13, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Oxford's monument to the origins of Apartheid still stands on High Street, despite Oriel College’s democratic decision relocate it. How can this image of Rhodes still be here, when Rhodes has fallen in Lusaka (1964), Bulawayo (1980) & Cape Town (2015)? Now there's a question. #everymonumentwillfall
if you haven’t already, now would be a good day to delete your X account
(no, not just neglect it, actually delete it)
(no, not just neglect it, actually delete it)
January 7, 2026 at 9:54 PM
if you haven’t already, now would be a good day to delete your X account
(no, not just neglect it, actually delete it)
(no, not just neglect it, actually delete it)
Among 2025 publications included a book chapter on Tacit Archaeology, an essay on V&A Storehouse for Art Review and a catalogue essay for Isaac Julien. In press for 2026. All these and more are linked from my website >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
December 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Among 2025 publications included a book chapter on Tacit Archaeology, an essay on V&A Storehouse for Art Review and a catalogue essay for Isaac Julien. In press for 2026. All these and more are linked from my website >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
In March I published the Afterword to the "Laying Ancestors to Rest" Policy Brief published by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations static1.squarespace.com/static/5f208...
I summarised the arguments in a feature article for Museums Journal static1.squarespace.com/static/5f208...
I summarised the arguments in a feature article for Museums Journal static1.squarespace.com/static/5f208...
December 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In March I published the Afterword to the "Laying Ancestors to Rest" Policy Brief published by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations static1.squarespace.com/static/5f208...
I summarised the arguments in a feature article for Museums Journal static1.squarespace.com/static/5f208...
I summarised the arguments in a feature article for Museums Journal static1.squarespace.com/static/5f208...
I recorded a wide range of podcasts about the book, including Empire Lines with Jelena Sofronijevic, Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake and Archaeology with Flint Dibble, links to all of those here >> www.danhicks.uk/media
December 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I recorded a wide range of podcasts about the book, including Empire Lines with Jelena Sofronijevic, Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake and Archaeology with Flint Dibble, links to all of those here >> www.danhicks.uk/media
In May I published “Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting”, one of Art Forum's Best Books of 2025. It compares the treatment of human remains in museums & universities with memorialisations of colonisers & enslavers in statues and monuments www.danhicks.uk/every-monume...
December 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In May I published “Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting”, one of Art Forum's Best Books of 2025. It compares the treatment of human remains in museums & universities with memorialisations of colonisers & enslavers in statues and monuments www.danhicks.uk/every-monume...
delighted to see my piece on the V&A Storehouse there at number 1 most-read columns in Art Review in 2025 artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
December 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
delighted to see my piece on the V&A Storehouse there at number 1 most-read columns in Art Review in 2025 artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
Sheffield's 1904 Queen Victoria statue in Endcliffe Park was dowsed in red paint, and the words FREE THE HUNGER STRIKERS written on the pedestal, overnight — in solidarity with and to raise awareness of the six people who remain on hunger strike in British prisons today
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Sheffield's 1904 Queen Victoria statue in Endcliffe Park was dowsed in red paint, and the words FREE THE HUNGER STRIKERS written on the pedestal, overnight — in solidarity with and to raise awareness of the six people who remain on hunger strike in British prisons today
✨✨happy holidays to all — and a reminder that there’s still time to get down to your favourite independent bookseller and gift someone a copy of #EveryMonumentWillFall, or give it to yourself — or even listen to me reading it all out wherever you get your audiobooks www.danhicks.uk/every-monume...
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
✨✨happy holidays to all — and a reminder that there’s still time to get down to your favourite independent bookseller and gift someone a copy of #EveryMonumentWillFall, or give it to yourself — or even listen to me reading it all out wherever you get your audiobooks www.danhicks.uk/every-monume...
What is this “new model”, for museum loans that we increasingly read about in the press releases of UK national museums? Loans have always taken place from these museums of course. Ramping them up to distract from restitution demands borrows a methodology from the old Edwardian V&A model (1/4)
December 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
What is this “new model”, for museum loans that we increasingly read about in the press releases of UK national museums? Loans have always taken place from these museums of course. Ramping them up to distract from restitution demands borrows a methodology from the old Edwardian V&A model (1/4)
there’s a few of these #everymonumentwillfall postcards at Bookmarks Socialist Bookshop in London — go and pick one up if you’re near Bloomsbury/Tottenham Court Road #StayWithTheFragments
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
there’s a few of these #everymonumentwillfall postcards at Bookmarks Socialist Bookshop in London — go and pick one up if you’re near Bloomsbury/Tottenham Court Road #StayWithTheFragments
what’s not to like? nice one Rachel Reeves for introducing the mansion tax ensuring the super-rich pay their way just like the rest of us 🙏💥
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
what’s not to like? nice one Rachel Reeves for introducing the mansion tax ensuring the super-rich pay their way just like the rest of us 🙏💥
what’s not to like? nice one Rachel Reeves for introducing the mansion tax ensuring the super-rich pay their way just like the rest of us 🙏💥
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
what’s not to like? nice one Rachel Reeves for introducing the mansion tax ensuring the super-rich pay their way just like the rest of us 🙏💥
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
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
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 ✨
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 ✨
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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 ✨
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 ✨
What a wonderful night in Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social 💥🙏
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
What a wonderful night in Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social 💥🙏
earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist launched an ad hominem attack on me in the International Journal of Cultural Property
I'm grateful to the editors for inviting my right to reply—and the opportunity to correct the record
www.academia.edu/144803887/On...
or
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I'm grateful to the editors for inviting my right to reply—and the opportunity to correct the record
www.academia.edu/144803887/On...
or
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist launched an ad hominem attack on me in the International Journal of Cultural Property
I'm grateful to the editors for inviting my right to reply—and the opportunity to correct the record
www.academia.edu/144803887/On...
or
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I'm grateful to the editors for inviting my right to reply—and the opportunity to correct the record
www.academia.edu/144803887/On...
or
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Thank you @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social for these kind words about my book The Brutish Museums at today's meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations in London 🙏💥
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Thank you @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social for these kind words about my book The Brutish Museums at today's meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations in London 🙏💥
"Grounded, textured, and often beautifully wry" - thank you Lee Bilson for this mini-review of #everymonumentwillfall on LinkedIn
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Grounded, textured, and often beautifully wry" - thank you Lee Bilson for this mini-review of #everymonumentwillfall on LinkedIn
Thank you again to Cité University for hosting me to talk about #everymonumentwillfall this evening
October 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thank you again to Cité University for hosting me to talk about #everymonumentwillfall this evening
Paris, tomorrow (Weds) 5pm Cité University undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Paris, tomorrow (Weds) 5pm Cité University undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/
Protest of an 1892 painting "First Tribute to Christopher Columbus" in Madrid’s Naval Museum www.news.com.au/national/spa...
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Protest of an 1892 painting "First Tribute to Christopher Columbus" in Madrid’s Naval Museum www.news.com.au/national/spa...