remarkable that media coverage of Trump’s ambitions for Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is failing to mention that Indigenous Inuit people make up 89% of the population

someone pointed out to me today that quite apart from the failure to condemn the Venezuela operation, the British government still hasn't issued any statement on the US Christmas Day strikes on Nigeria

Is The Guardian working through All the Men in AI in alphabetical order and making sure they all feel special?

a lovely article by a 3rd-year History undergraduate named Ruby Day about a seminar I gave at Royal Holloway shortly before Christmas theorbital.co.uk/every-monume...

💥A thread looking back with thanks on 2025, which was definitely one of my busiest and most productive years 🙏🔥

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💥A thread looking back with thanks on 2025, which was definitely one of my busiest and most productive years 🙏🔥

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...

make a Bond movie academic: Live and Let Doodle-Poll

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky

and more on the book here www.danhicks.uk/every-monume...

It is a profound horror. A day will come when the word elite is no longer a forcefield against consequences.

yet another desperate story about elite universities and their treatment of the dead — this time from Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

YOUTUBE: you like history ME: I do! YOUTUBE: and you're white ME: well, I mean YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor-- ME: no no no No NO NO NO

an interesting and compelling appropriation and reimagining of the symbol of the so-called “Famine Queen”

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

An important summary of where we are now on the charities act and restitution here in the UK bateswells.co.uk/updates/unus...

Just published - a new #EveryMonumentWillFall podcast Empire Lines X Dan Hicks, recorded with a live audience at Oxford's Common Ground in October find it here on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts >> open.spotify.com/episode/3Yv1...

Happy Holidays everyone ❄️ and a very special Winterval to the self-styled anti-woke, “diversity is weakness” brigade ✨

While in Chicago, I took a tour around the Obama Presidential Center. I can’t wait for you all to visit in June 2026. Here’s a sneak peek:

✨✨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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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)

fyi: @tnflorvil.bsky.social @michmo.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @adamblackler.bsky.social @unangstm.bsky.social @profdanhicks.bsky.social @djaten.bsky.social @sylvienjobati.bsky.social

Very welcome news today that the UK will join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. This will enable greater opportunities for study abroad and contributions in UK universities, and is something we called for in our most recent Manifesto.

Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Offener Brief – Der Bund hat die Pflicht zur Kolonialismus Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung Hier geht es zum Offenen Brief: decolonize-berlin.de/de/pressemit... Mitzeichnung über den Link weiterhin möglich!

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

It was @dahlialithwick.bsky.social who described these executive orders as "letters to Santa," I believe.

Before anyone asks where I was on 25 September I have a rock solid alibi, I was at work in a museum of stolen objects oh no wait

Before anyone asks where I was on 25 September I have a rock solid alibi, I was at work in a museum of stolen objects oh no wait

Sorry to read about these thefts from the colonial collections of Bristol Museum, wishing for a speedy recovery And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@profdanhicks.bsky.social I loved Brutish Museums, a fantastic book that's well worth reading. Made my dad read it and got into an argument about repatriation of artefacts - 100% worth it. Planning to acquire his new book, Every Momument Will Fall asap

Tomorrow in London —all welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/laying-anc...

we are going to win

For more information, please visit the MSA website! You can register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/72abb8...

looking forward to participating in the online book launch this Thursday for this important new edited volume

I’m delighted to be giving the 2026 Lancaster History Lecture, as part of the Lancaster Literary Festival — following in the footsteps of @sathnam.bsky.social and Helen Castor, talking about #everymonumentwillfall see you there on March 18th ✨❤️🙏 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/curator...

honoured to see #everymonumentwillfall named as an @artforum.com book of 2025 www.artforum.com/lists/best-o...

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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

honoured to see #everymonumentwillfall named as an @artforum.com book of 2025 www.artforum.com/lists/best-o...

Caught up with first of this year’s Reith Lectures. The bloke giving them claims the Fabian Society “revolutionised” Britain, and doesn’t even pronounce Gramsci properly 🙃🤷

“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.” From a media law perspective: BS. There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

fighting it out on that legacy fascist app while the conversation has moved somewhere else is self-destructive and unnecessary

I'm hoping to see this cut to £1.5m next year. Will capture *far* more homes whilst still only touching the very rich.

This isn't even pocket change to these people

Why on earth hasn’t the Labour Party got an active and functional @bsky.app account? This disastrous Morgan McSweeney phase of government needs to evolve into something new