Dan Hicks

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AP using a stock-shot of the funeral of the Queen of the United Kingdom there...

"It doesn’t matter how many ceremonies you put on for the return of 10, 20, or 30 ancestors because the hundreds of thousands of other people in museum collections still need your attention."

Lisez Dan Hicks

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

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

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

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

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...

💥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...

Oxford University Press enters collective consultation 'proposing 113 redundancies'

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

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 ✨

(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."

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)

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

‘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...

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...

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.

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.

💥AUTUMN BOOK TOUR💥

#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham

dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025

details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks

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.

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...

A room of people in a book shop

Dan hicks talking to a room of people in a bookshop

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!

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

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 ...

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

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

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"Ultimately the message of the book is one of hope. It can take a long time for these structures and infrastructures to be dismantled. Returning looted objects, removing racist statues, or changing academic disciplines doesn’t happen overnight. Militarist realism won’t be unbuilt in a day."

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...

💥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...

well to be fair the article does discuss the Koh-i-Noor, which is depicted in that photo

France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view The theft of the Louvre's crown jewels has increased calls for the museum to be more transparent about the colonial origins of the treasures it displays.

“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view”
apnews.com/article/jewe...

What a wonderful night in Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social 💥🙏

Edinburgh tonight ✨ lighthousebookshop.com/events/citie...

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thank you Paul—for coming along and also for your excellent question in the Q&A 🙏❤️💥