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Dan Hicks, is a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator… more

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Paging @shakespeareandcompany.com ✨🙃
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Thank you dear Sandeep for making this wonderful event happen!
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Thank you again to Cité University for hosting me to talk about #everymonumentwillfall this evening
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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
Dan and myself before the start of the event Dan busy explaining cultural whiteness Happy cocktails
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marievc.bsky.social
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.
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Paris, tomorrow (Weds) 5pm Cité University undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/
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by Dan Hicks

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

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by Dan Hicks

profdanhicks.bsky.social
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...
Columbus Day, 2025
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Today our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus -- the original American hero,
www.whitehouse.gov
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Reposted by Dan Hicks, American Library Association, Juan Cole , and 2 more

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Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
An easel sign reads, “UCLA ATTENTION No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities. Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest. Scan for policy information.”
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by Dan Hicks

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It’s Badenoch not Jenrick this time 🙃
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by Dan Hicks

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

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(2/2) sign the petition: Tell Your MP: Don't Rip Up Our Rights actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...
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by Dan Hicks

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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)
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calmerfuture.bsky.social
feels like relevant territory, as we struggle to move past historic evasion and euphemism
a quote by Orwell from 'Being Jewish After The Destruction Of Gaza' by Peter Beinart
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
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!😆😆😂😂
Rue Faidherbe, Lille
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by Dan Hicks

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ha! 🙃🤣
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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
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Reposted by Dan Hicks, Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn

carolinepennock.bsky.social
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...
Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.
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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
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by Dan Hicks

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Great to see this cross-community response to Mr Jenrick
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by Dan Hicks

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Very glad to hear arrests have been made — best wishes to the great team at St Fagans
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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.
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Reposted by Dan Hicks, Ben H. Ansell, Alison Phipps

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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.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8d
Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA
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by Dan Hicks — Reposted by Lesley A. Hall

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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...
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by Dan Hicks — Reposted by Dan Hicks

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💥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...
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Reposted by Dan Hicks, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings , and 9 more

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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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
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by Dan Hicks

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sounds good!

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Readings, Malvern #HistBookChat
Dan Hicks, Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting.
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