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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I checked my pigeon hole in college today, and was thrilled to discover that the Chinese edition of #brutishmuseums has arrived — complete with a very special bookmark which I will treasure. (not least because my next book has a chapter on the 1860 sacking of the Summer Palace in Beijing)

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As the academic year begins, I’m happy to report it’s been a very productive summer. Yesterday I finished a very intense round of edits for my next book, my most ambitious to date. I can’t wait to share it — out next June 💫

World war zero—how colonial wars made our world printed out

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Thank you Toronto! An amazing few days giving four talks in five days about #everymonumentwillfall, culminating in a wonderful at-capacity talk at Toronto Public Library last night 💥💫

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

💥 TORONTO and PRISTINA—three upcoming #everymonumentwillfall book events ✨ Wed June 3 Toronto's Type Books with Ilana Shamoon 💫 Fri June 5 Toronto Public Library with Sameer Farooq & Tandazani Dhlakama 🔥 Wed 10 June Pristina National Library of Kosovo with Francoise Vergès 👉 www.danhicks.uk/talks

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The paperback of Every Monument Will Fall is published today, with a new preface titled "Militarist Realism 2.0". You can download the pdf for free here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

💫Thank you Siena! Wonderful to be there to talk about Every Monument Will Fall — now on to Birmingham tomorrow, then Oxford, Manchester and London next week www.danhicks.uk/talks

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

💥 I'm delighted to announce that I'll be giving the 2027 Haley Lecture for Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in March next year 🙏 watch this space for more details, and potentially some other US talks >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

a bizarre intervention on entry fees for museums and attractions from Robert Jenrick — and a fascinating comments section in which nobody seems to agree with this apparent Reform UK culture policy www.facebook.com/share/18FNQ1...

Facebook post from Robert Jenrick, a politician who famously had Mickey Mouse cartoon murals painted over at a children’s asylum centre

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"From National Heritage to Public Memory" - new from me on @labourlist.bsky.social labourhub.org.uk/2026/04/09/f...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

💥 EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL PAPERBACK TOUR SPRING 2026 💥 💫 Siena, Birmingham, Oxford, Manchester, London, Bristol, Toronto, Pristina, Clevedon 💫 🔥 Tickets >> www.danhicks.uk/talks 🙏

EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL PAPERBACK TOUR SPRING 2026

MON 27 APRIL SIENA UNIVERSITY
(WITH TOMASO MONTANARI)

THUR 30 APRIL BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY/THE HEATH BOOKSHOP
(WITH CORINNE FOWLER & LEIRE OLABARRIA)

TUES 5 MAY OXFORD DAUNT BOOKS SUMMERTOWN
(WITH PAULA AKPAN)

WEDS 6 MAY MANCHESTER MUSEUM (WITH SADIA HABIB)

THURS 7 MAY LONDON WATERSTONES TRAFALGAR SQUARE
(WITH SARAH STEIN LUBRANO)

TUES 19 MAY BRISTOL EAST BRISTOL BOOKS (WITH MAI MUSIÉ)

FRI JUNE 5 TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY/TORONTO BIENNALE
(WITH SAMEER FAROOQ & TANDAZANI DHLAKANA)

WEDS 10 JUNE PRISTINA, NATIONAL LIBRARY OF KOSOVO
(WITH FRANÇOISE VERGÉS)

SUN 14 JUNE CLEVEDON CURZON CINEMA AND ARTS
(WITH THANGAM DEBBONAIRE)

FULL DETAILS & TICKETS >> WWW.DANHICKS.UK

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

this remake of Dr Strangelove is much less funny than the original

A presidential truth social post that is like the worst one yet

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

💫 I’m giving two talks in Lisbon next week 💥 Wednesday 8 April at 14.30 at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal on "Staying With the Fragments" ✨ Thurs 9 June “Toppling the Nonhuman" at the Iconoclash 2.0 conference See some of you there! 🇵🇹

Stay with the Fragments:
Thoughts on Monuments, Museums, and Memory

ICONOCLASH 2.0:
EPISTEMOLOGIES, AFFECTS AND THE POLITICS OF UNDOING HERITAGE

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

a few more dates added — Siena, Toronto, Pristina, Clevedon 💫

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

a 3D-printed replica of the Columbus statue toppled in Baltimore in 2020 has been installed at the White House. as I argue in the Preface to the paperback of #everymonumentwillfall, we need a new global conversation about the democratic right to public memory www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/a...

Nyt headline Christopher Columbus
Statue Is Installed on White
House Grounds

A really bad 3D print of Baltimore’s fallen statue of Columbus

Nyt: “A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed on the grounds of the White House early Sunday morning, as part of President Trump's effort to position the explorer as a hero after monuments to him were removed across the country.”

A passive-aggressive plaque that reads: “Christopher Columbus
"Discoverer of America"
October 12, 1492
Dedicated by
Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer and President Ronald W. Reagan, October 8, 1984
Destroyed July 4, 2020
Resurrected 2022
Gifted to the White House by the
Italian American Organizations United, Inc., of Baltimore in October 2025
Rededicated by
President Donald J. Trump, October 13, 2025”

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

💥Every Monument Will Fall UK Paperback Tour Spring 2026 Thur 30 April Birmingham Fri 1 May London Tue 5 May Oxford Wed 6 May Manchester Thurs 7 May Bristol More details/tickets here >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"BARBARIC SAVAGES" (Hegseth). We've been served up this line before. It's got a history. Dehumanisation in the service of destruction. We need to understand that history (1/3)

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

(2/3) it’s with mixed feelings that we now share these shocking details of the scale and depth of enduring violence, posthumous abuse, secrecy, neglect, and silence about over a quarter of a million human remains in over 250 UK museums. (That’s a higher number than the population of Southampton.)

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I was glad to be able to write this about the 24 February anniversary in longer-term and global perspective for my colleagues at Pushkin House www.pushkinhouse.org/pages/24-Feb...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

💥Monday, London, 7pm www.energyembargoforpalestine.com/partners-in-...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This is the original text panel in question in Room 4

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

fourth — and this is the main issue here for me, seeing as Palestine was formally recognised as a state by the UK in 2025 — why does the "place" field in the British Museum collections database only have the phrase "Palestine (historic)"?? www.britishmuseum.org/collection/

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

this update/correction from @willdalrymple.bsky.social on the question of removing the term Palestine from British Museum gallery texts definitely raises more questions than it answers

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It's wet and horrible out there but inside the woodburner's on and I just signed off the proofs for the paperback edition of #everymonumentwillfall—with a new preface Militarist Realism 2.0 out on 1 May—watch this space or follow my WhatsApp channel for the paperback book tour, links in my bio🔥💫

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

there are surely no three words in the English language that will strike terror into the rail passenger’s heart more deeply than that most ominous phrase “bus replacement service” 💫

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

my grad students tell me I need to read this; a dark academia novel on the theme of “academia is hell” in which a doctoral advisor is dispatched to hell by a mistaken magic spell? bring it on, diving in 💫🙃😱

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

LONDON -- come to hear me speak about "The unfinished story of the Worcester College Skull Cup" at the @antiquaries.bsky.social on Thursday 19 Feb at 5pm free, registration required >> www.danhicks.uk/talks #Everymonumentwillfall

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

here’s one of the videos, content warning but this needs to be seen and shared

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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?

The Telegraph reporting that “Elon Musk's X has stopped its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot undressing women in photos after Britain threatened to ban the site.”

A statement from X saying "We now geoblock the ability of all users to generate images of real people in bikinis, underwear, and similar attire via the Grok account and in Grok in X in those jurisdictions where it's illegal”

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

if you haven’t already, now would be a good day to delete your X account (no, not just neglect it, actually delete it)

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

✨✨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...

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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)

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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 🙏💥

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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 🙏💥

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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 · 14/11/2025

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 ✨

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