Dan Hicks

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.

Very glad to hear arrests have been made — best wishes to the great team at St Fagans
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"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.

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...

Really looking forward to this

💥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...

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.

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
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sounds good!

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

Readings, Malvern #HistBookChat

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

Whoa!

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.

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...

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

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 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

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”

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration.

@politico.com had a big piece about it.

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...

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

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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.

If you haven't grown up with VOA or RFERL, here is why they matter - according to #TheGlobalJigsaw:
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he’s an FRS, not an HonFRS, so he shouldn’t be above the rules. (See for example David Starkey, no longer an FSA)

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...

tone deaf from the Royal Society on E. Musk FRS

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Twitter today.

it’s time, if you haven’t already done so, to shut down your twitter account, and tell the institutions you are part of to leave too.

there’s no way any UK museum, university, politician or any of us should still be on that far-right platform

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I’m so beyond excited to share that This Guy Sucked was selected by Apple Podcasts as one of their top ten best new shows of 2025! How wild is that?!

Check out the rest of the list here: apple.co/bestsofar

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THIS THURSDAY ON TGS: the inimitable Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social tells us the intertwining stories of a man, his family, and the people they hurt long after their deaths.

Watch out for the one near you - UK,Ireland, France #everymonumentwillfall

heatre of operation, Europe included These histories are closer than you might think. They're not even histories. I mean, this is about the here and now. And yet you still sometimes hear people talking about 'postcolonialism', as if coloni-alism, in these many different forms, were simply over. Just open a newspaper or doomscroll your social media, from Russian imperialism in Ukraine, to Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, to a newly confident far right in Germany, Britain and the United States. The question of whether the idea of postcolonialism was ahis-torical, de-politicising or simply overly optimistic was discussed quite a lot in the Nineties. Scholars like Anne McClintock questioned how it seemed to involve an 'entranced suspension of history', suggesting that in reality 'colonialism returns at the moment of its disappearance. Arif Dirlik argued the term was even 'celebratory of the so-called end of colonialism' - since it implied that the project of 'decolonisation' in the post-war period was genuine rather than spurious or partial.' Today the idea of 'postcolonialism' is best classed alongside that other fin-de-siècle narrative, the right-wing claim of 'the end of history', which was the counterpart of the story of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a last victory for capitalism as if it brought wars to an end. Call it late colonialism if you like, whether in war, securitisation and policing, in cultural policy or culture war, but call it colonialism. A nostalgia for that theoretical prefix 'post' is now obstructing understanding and explanation of this ongoing militarism.

#everymonumentwillfall

it’s time for all the academics still describing the present as “postcolonial” to open a newspaper

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