A Florida university is putting up a statue to Charlie Kirk. More monuments will doubtless follow. The analogies some are drawing with the Reichstag fire miss the point. The analogy is clear, it’s a history I discuss on page 82 of #everymonumentwillfall — the Schlageter Cult ☠️

A Florida university is putting up a statue to Charlie Kirk. More monuments will doubtless follow. The analogies some are drawing with the Reichstag fire miss the point. The analogy is clear, it’s a history I discuss on page 82 of #everymonumentwillfall — the Schlageter Cult ☠️

✨ look what just arrived from @politybooks.bsky.social — fabulous translation of my dear colleague Bénédicte Savoy’s latest book Who Owns Beauty

At #SHP26 (July 10-12) we are delighted to welcome back @profdanhicks.bsky.social who will be talking about his latest book Every Monument Will Fall. He's joined by Distinguished Prof Marnie Hughes-Warrington talking about Digital Historians & the role that historians must play in improving GenAI.

it was a very very very wet day in North Wales but nonetheless a very lovely 8k loop around Llyn Padarn ✨🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

a South West Network Statement on Increasing Division and Hostility Across The UK following an air rifle attack on a 9-year-old girl in Bristol www.blacksouthwestnetwork.org/blog/bswn-pu...

the best way this government could push back meaningfully on performative flag-hugging by far right yobs would be to fund arts and culture properly, starting with the Royal Shakespeare Company www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

join me this evening from 7pm on zoom, talking to the Kent Archaeological Society about Augustus Pitt-Rivers' excavations and experiments in musketry in Kent—and what that history means for archaeology, culture, museums and the so-called 'culture war' today www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/events/pitt-...

💥Anglesey, Henley, Oxford, Brighton, Paris, London (x3), Sheffield, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, Nottingham, Venice💥 ✨Come along to one of my book talks or lectures this autumn for #EveryMonumentWillFall✨ 🔥tickets/links here >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair our inter-university research seminar is pleased to invite you to the Paris Book Launch of @profdanhicks.bsky.social Dan Hicks's 2025 banger *Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting*. 15th Oct, 5 pm. undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com

Dan Hicks, Professor für zeitgenössische Archäologie in Oxford, findet: Welche Figuren mit Statuen gewürdigt werden und wessen Schädel anonym in Museumsdepots liegen, ist kein ewiges kulturelles Erbe, sondern muss Gegenstand demokratischer Aushandlung sein.

Private Eye

“the enemy arrives not by rubber dinghy but by private jet” (traditional English proverb)

💥 #museumideas 2025 kicking off with Helen Barker and Geraldine Straker from @beamishmuseum.bsky.social talking about “Collecting Together: Shaping stories with communities at Beamish Museum”

Current bid now £1,000 — the auction is live today and this lot will be up within the next hour

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

The right to speak freely is the ultimate personal liberty and the foundation of Karen’s 11-year career at The Post. We’re proud to call Karen a colleague and a longtime union sibling. The Post Guild stands with her and will continue to support her and defend her rights.

The Washington Post notified Karen Attiah—the paper's only full-time Black columnist—she was fired for her remarks about "white men" after posting about Charlie Kirk's killing, according to the termination letter obtained by @status.news www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

For those who read German—a new interview with me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social 🇩🇪 jacobin.de/artikel/denk...

human remains up for sale at a Hampshire auction house — it’s time the trade in body parts is outlawed, as recommended by the All Party Parliamentary Group report Laying Ancestors to Rest www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2146051...

In person event. All welcome. Post-event drinks reception. Check out the link and click on events. Come meet the author if you're in Paris.

a professor of theatre at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee is fired reportedly for simply reposting a Newsweek headline on social media clarksvillenow.com/local/apsu-f...

also to note: the national anthem is, technically, just the melody the words could always be rewritten again, as they have been before, to keep in step with our times now that’s a Labour government project that many might get behind

The BBC (obvs) aired somebody claiming that asylum seekers were eating the swans outside the ex-hotel within which they are housed just this week.

I couldn't find a full transcript of the Musk conversation with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) at yesterday’s London demonstration so I made one myself many shocking bits to this but perhaps especially the rhetoric of English villages under attack from “marauding"

both my grandfathers fought up the beach at D-Day. They both believed a key part of Englishness was tolerance, diversity — and anti-fascism. that was a key part of their “identity”, as you put it, and that of many of their generation — but we have lost sight of it

In 1919 after the war a new “official peace version” of the UK’s national anthem was formally approved by the Privy Council it was published in the standard hymnbook Songs of Praise from 1925 (1/3)

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

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

I couldn't find a full transcript of the Musk conversation with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) at yesterday’s London demonstration so I made one myself many shocking bits to this but perhaps especially the rhetoric of English villages under attack from “marauding"

Yes it does www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

McSweeney is increasingly a liability for Starmer - alienating MPs and failing electorally “Lord Mandelson is close to Sir Keir's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who is known to have been keen on the appointment - and the pair spoke regularly” news.sky.com/story/no-10-...

The Times is reporting that it was Morgan McSweeney who pushed for his friend, Peter Mandelson, to become US Ambassador.

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

link to the pdf here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays

“Il Brutish Museum” — for those who read Italian here’s a piece of writing I published in The Passenger book-magazine for their issue on London earlier this year, about the British Museum 🇮🇹🏛️✨

thank goodness Peter Mandelson has been sacked by Starmer — and thank goodness he didn’t get the chancellorship of Oxford University when he ran for it last year!

gun violence doesn’t care about ideology @momsdemand.bsky.social

You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

#ICYMI "At the cost of unspecified tens of millions, the architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have recreated a classic colonial-era museum... Perhaps...it would be best not to appoint politicians as museum directors." artreview.com/what-isnt-at... via @artreview.bsky.social re: #Storehouse et al.

one might note that Trump calling his new attack on Chicago ‘Operation Midway BLITZ’ has a particular historical resonance here in the UK 🙃💥 blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/08/i...

The explanation of the policy contradicts itself - "Selecting some tragedies or events and not others can further harm members of our community who are acutely impacted by particular issues." omc.osu.edu/key-issues/p...

your periodic reminder that “archaeology isn’t political” is a political statement

We should all be paying attention here — land acknowledgments banned at Ohio State University www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

🏺 Statement from the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland on #EAA2025 and call to action (with alt-text).

Dear colleagues, some concerning news has been circulating this week in relation to the 2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social Annual Meeting (Belgrade Virtual). We, the IAI Board, believe it is important to acknowledge & share this info. Please see the full statement, with links, here: buff.ly/8YG0WmV

a clear and welcome statement from the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland on the EAA debacle www.facebook.com/share/19TbJL...

In part because the ONLY reason Ohio State exists, like all the other so-called "land grant" universities, is because of colonizers' brutal genocides of our peoples, full-bore murderous campaigns of bloody, burnout extermination in service of land theft and white supremacy.

I’m sure all the conservative free speech advocates out there are going to protest this mightily.