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

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

No better way to spend the afternoon as in the company of @profdanhicks.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

"I was very much in charge of" Israel's pre-emptive strike on Iran seems like a pretty big aside in an answer about the Senate filibuster.

tune in on 20 Nov to learn about our Masters programme in Archaeology here in Oxford

earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist launched an ad hominem attack on me in the International Journal of Cultural Property I'm grateful to the editors for inviting my right to reply—and the opportunity to correct the record www.academia.edu/144803887/On... or www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Dan Hicks, author of The Brutish Museums (2020) and Every Monument Will Fall (2025), "which holds monuments to colonialists, enslavers, etc. up against the writing of Sylvia Wynter, Stuart Hall & Ursula Le Guin, drawing together open secrets about dehumanisation and tredaction of public memory."

💥Come and hear me talk this week Cork Mon 3rd Dublin Tues 4th Belfast Thurs 6th Edinburgh Fri 7th www.danhicks.uk/talks

Expert evaluators needed for Horizon Europe >> rea.ec.europa.eu/working-rea/...

remarkable transformative anti-racist works in a co-curated Mellon-funded show engaging with ideas of monuments and statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, at The Brick and at Geffen Contemporary @moca-la.bsky.social in LA >> www.moca.org/exhibition/m...

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Listening to the fireworks going off across Birmingham tonight and proud of this city’s diversity despite recent right-wing attacks

The Louvre jewellery story raises the question of why a society chooses to keep them, what this represents, and what could be different. Who is not there. Who extracted the stones. Who paid for the stones.

And the second thing is @profdanhicks.bsky.social's choice to write the book in the second person ('you'), to shift the focus away from himself ('I') and avoid the 'we' that dilutes the process (who is 'we'? museums, universities, the voices we hear, from which parts of the world?).

The Louvre jewellery story reminds me that I haven't had time to write down here what I took away from meeting @profdanhicks.bsky.social and the wonderful students from @sandeepbak.bsky.social last week.

Thank you @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social for these kind words about my book The Brutish Museums at today's meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations in London 🙏💥

Tomorrow, London www.appg-ar.org/uk-reparatio...

"Grounded, textured, and often beautifully wry" - thank you Lee Bilson for this mini-review of #everymonumentwillfall on LinkedIn

What a great turnout. It lasted three hours drinks included but the folks just wanted to ask one final question to the prof! Happy days in academia are rare and today is one of them. Late eve cocktails for us, eh @profdanhicks.bsky.social

Thank you again to Cité University for hosting me to talk about #everymonumentwillfall this evening

Thanks again for the generous invitation to join the seminar, to listen to and challenge monumentality with @profdanhicks.bsky.social, but also with the super group of students and their sharp questions.

Dan Hicks est l'auteur par lequel j'ai appris à découvrir la critique des musées, je ne peux que vous encourager à y aller ce soir

Happening today. Paris 5 pm. Please do make time to listen to @profdanhicks.bsky.social tear apart legacy monumentality. So looking forward to the event. All info in post below. In-person event.

Paris, tomorrow (Weds) 5pm Cité University undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/

Protest of an 1892 painting "First Tribute to Christopher Columbus" in Madrid’s Naval Museum www.news.com.au/national/spa...

Cities (re)claimed 5.30 Fri 7th @profdanhicks.bsky.social, @thelrm.bsky.social & Mason Leaver-Yap unpick the political narratives of our cityscapes-who is welcome, safe, forgotten or hidden? Reclaiming and reshaping our cities to shape our future. lighthousebookshop.com/events/citie...

This episode is free, public, and available wherever you listen to podcasts! pod.fo/e/33593d

a new Trump proclamation on monuments to genocide: “Under my leadership…our Nation will now abide by a simple truth: Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“Public expression activities” forbidden in this space UGH

“Britain must never become a multicultural country” — the absolute state of the UK’s Official Opposition right now conservativehome.com/2025/10/08/f...

💥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

the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is a treaty Churchill helped create in the ashes of World War II It protects our rights to protest, to a fair trial, to privacy, family life, safety from torture or degrading treatment Farage and now the Tories want to take Britain out of it (1/2)

Just got into Lille - it sends its love to you in the form of aggression by dead white coloniser - am sure you don’t want me to take a photograph of his statue!😆😆😂😂

feels like relevant territory, as we struggle to move past historic evasion and euphemism

Come—it’s next Weds 15th October. Engage with author @profdanhicks.bsky.social Were I a Grauniad contributor, I’d label the work ‘eminently readable’! A gem from page 114: Another dead White mediocre man with letters after his name, an inherited fortune, some made-up landed gentry title, come on. 😂

I don't know if you remember but some time ago I said that we'd have something to share soon. Anyway, it's this @draughtjournal.bsky.social

Draught is now live! www.draughtjournal.com Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Great to see this cross-community response to Mr Jenrick

Very glad to hear arrests have been made — best wishes to the great team at St Fagans www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

"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...

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 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Readings, Malvern #HistBookChat

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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...

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.