https://www.danhicks.uk/talks daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/siena-dan-hicks-in-conversation-with-professor-tomaso-montanari monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/clevedon-the-marbles-with-dame-thangam-debbonaire monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/pristina-kosovo-dan-hicks-and-franoise-vergs-in-conversation monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/toronto-public-library-with-sameer-farooq-and-tandazani-dhlakama monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/bristol-east-bristol-books monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/gllhov9d90pvd3rzs5sp8bkjnv1g55 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/london-waterstones-trafalgar-square monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/manchester-the-manchester-museum monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/transcontinental-debate-at-pompeu-fabra-university-barcelona monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/the-unfinished-story-of-the-worcester-college-skull-cup monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/save-the-date-birmingham-30-april-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/lancaster-history-lecture-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/venice-keynote monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/london-goldsmiths-anthropology monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/sheffield-research-seminar monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/london-appg-reparations-conference monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/paris-book-launch monthly 0.5 2025-09-15 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/dublin-book-talk monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/cork-book-talk monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/brighton-cowley-club monthly 0.5 2025-09-11 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/mnster-keynote-address monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/hx1hqyluj57p8xoaqdzw7vejac1swn monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/queens-university-belfast-annual-public-anthropology-lecture monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/london-bookmarks monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/durham-peoples-bookshop monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/oxford-common-ground-x-empire-lines-podcast monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/a257bdyl4jyrbucuvam71lcotdvne1 monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/edinburgh-book-launch-at-lighthouse-radical-bookshop monthly 0.5 2025-10-03 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/london-housmans-radical-bookshop-book-talk-for-every-monument-will-fall monthly 0.5 2025-05-30 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/nottingham-book-talk-at-five-leaves-bookshop monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/anglesey monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/amsterdam-keynote-lecture monthly 0.5 2025-06-30 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/bonn-book-launch monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/crimes-without-criminals monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/berlin-book-launch monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/rome monthly 0.5 2025-04-29 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/oxford-book-launch monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://www.danhicks.uk/talks/londonbooklaunch monthly 0.5 2025-05-02 https://www.danhicks.uk/home daily 1.0 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/a88eb891-399a-4273-99bc-c0fa176d0d90/DH_headshot_bw.jpg Dan Hicks https://www.danhicks.uk/books daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/a11aee3c-f08e-417c-8309-849b8df98488/every_monument_will_fall_remembering_forgetting.png Books Every Monument Will Fall book cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/e9e41e6c-57ef-416a-942f-08745b08727e/brutish+museums+cover.jpg Books The Brutish Museums book cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596017011437-ADOYNRQD1FMUYSVPPWIV/Screenshot+2020-07-29+at+09.15.24.png Books Archaeology and Photography (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596017292861-U3FDYOLDG3FGLAGHYDAR/91a23JSxXtL.jpg Books Lande: the Calais "Jungle" and Beyond (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596017589422-BTN7N1O7ZOWT3HLJWRQM/9780199218714.jpg Books Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596017853695-VUVGIBQ2MJ3EJEI644RH/largepreview.png Books Envisioning Landscape https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596018261190-EGP5108JS8W6AD7ZH63L/Screenshot+2020-07-29+at+11.23.32.png Books World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596018344256-UZZQKUPE993I0TAP09CS/ccomp.jpg Books Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596018655957-MBWTG72ODPDO8M9IRP30/Screenshot+2020-07-29+at+11.30.36.png Books The Garden of the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/7d0c3497-4d15-4ce2-9f8c-ef5aa8bdfbc1/9781350463646.jpg Books A Cultural History of Objects (six volumes) https://www.danhicks.uk/essays daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/4a70c5dd-63e8-46ad-bdf8-c388317b8afd/return+the+bones+museums+journal+.png Essays Return the Bones Museums Journal 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/cc72cd29-d3bb-4bf9-b488-f906b27c2f57/Screenshot+2025-11-11+at+17.35.11.png Essays Jacobin magazine interview with Dan Hicks for Every Monument Will Fall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/f8799f0e-0bf7-448d-a5a8-e20cfdd76861/Screenshot+2025-08-16+at+05.44.47.png Essays What isn't at the V&A Storehouse - Dan Hicks for Art Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/90b5c717-78ad-4a60-8ae6-e172f07b1387/Screenshot+2025-12-19+at+19.02.19.png Essays Afterword to Laying Ancestors to Rest Policy Brief https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/11266c53-418a-4638-ac67-42a72899f3c6/hicks+isaac+julien+statues+never+die.png Essays ‘Crumbling is not an instant's Act’: the artist as curator in Isaac Julien’s Once Again: Statues Never Die…’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1c0845d3-cb92-4f8e-b347-3017a162681d/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+18.08.15.png Essays Essay titled "6 Scars" in the 2026 collection "As if Nothing Could Fall: Essays on Monuments" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/ccadd927-0fe1-4cbc-84ab-87565d0f68bf/Screenshot+2025-08-22+at+10.50.05.png Essays Dan Hicks and Rebekka Ladewig 2025. Tacit Archaeology: Legacy Colonialism, Implicit Knowing, Cultural Techniques, and Slow Inheritance. In A. Natif and G.M. Lucas (eds) Shadow Archaeologies. London: Routledge, pp. 58-72 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/91d1c997-ffa7-45cf-8225-acf7f477ac5c/Il+Brutish+Museums+Passenger.png Essays Il Brutish Museums The Passenger Magazine-Book (in Italian) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/814f1b36-c414-4523-a031-0fa1401d5521/jacobin+de+Dan+Hicks+denkmaeler.png Essays Denkmäler überdenken, Unbenannte benennen - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/90c5c82b-5eaa-471d-a631-afca73518c73/staffan+lunden.png Essays On "Distorting History": a reply to Staffan Lundén (International Journal of Cultural Property 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1696238377287-9OATFKC56XEWWZISAN8Z/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2023-08-29%2Bat%2B16.06.31.jpg Essays The British Museum is an Anachronism: here's how to fix it (Telegraph, August 2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/e0c92881-e52e-4758-996e-701686bfbecf/are+museums.png Essays Are Museums Obsolete? (Architectural Review May 2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/6ed0c914-0ba6-4855-8fe7-056b7575103d/Screenshot+2023-10-02+at+11.22.35.png Essays The last remaining argument against restitution has now been lost (The Art Newspaper) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/965ba01f-e6c4-4be6-ae01-e41a23cbac4b/Screenshot+2023-10-02+at+11.38.55.png Essays Declining Whiteness (2023, from Empire Windrush: Reflections on 75 Years & More of the Black British Experience) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/f1a4f5dd-a96c-4fe4-84ba-b4e7753cbc84/Screenshot+2021-04-05+at+14.47.38.png Essays Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum — British Art Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/a451f43f-3d4c-4e5d-b2ca-54620100ef3a/Screenshot+2023-10-02+at+11.47.00.png Essays Glorious Memory (from What is History Now? 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1602957305988-ACFS0X6OP02EJPFZ7WYW/Screenshot+2020-10-17+at+18.53.46.png Essays Guardian Op-Ed - Museums are being drawn into a fake culture war https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/7e2a4e90-da49-4705-a994-a18453784c65/Screenshot+2021-06-22+at+14.53.52.png Essays Let's Keep Colston Falling (Art Review) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/5c1b45d7-a45c-4742-b9fa-567688d206b8/Screenshot+2021-05-08+at+20.19.40.png Essays Decolonising museums isn’t part of a ‘culture war’. It’s about keeping them relevant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606553919783-HXH3NUO9YA8FC60HND2R/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+08.58.02.png Essays Telegraph op-ed on returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/7dae4f0e-eaac-4783-a8ac-2b1c8737c6a2/Screenshot+2021-04-05+at+00.23.36.png Essays If the Queen has nothing to hide, she should tell us what artefacts she owns — Guardian Opinion Dan Hicks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1600687686252-1MW62QN65LOSN9GYE3Y8/IMG_4068.jpg Essays Interview by Bryan Appleyard with Dan Hicks in the Sunday Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596051059629-L5GTXI141RZDZFDJ5QM8/Screenshot%2B2020-07-29%2Bat%2B20.28.03.jpg Essays Why Colson Had to Fall (Art Review June 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606553133030-6ZSC2S95USQP14YGXRO0/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+08.44.52.png Essays Telegraph op-ed on returning the Benin Beonzes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1602445741783-BVDUWGGBUR8Y2IK94AJ6/Screenshot+2020-10-11+at+20.47.48.png Essays Interview for Book of the Month in The Art Newspaper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596123363115-PYPR81PT606F4C5MRRD7/EPE0rkiW4AER2Wr.jpg Essays On the Spot - History Today, February 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606553733953-PR4XM94Y6K7EVG2F2DHN/EmUTNXeXEAkDDWx.jpg Essays The Telegraph news story on the Benin Bronzes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596740304896-57437H6L909HY4IBY7HQ/Screenshot+2020-08-06+at+19.57.58.png Essays Legacies of Violence - interview in The Economist books section, 8 August 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596108154679-WVRTZTD98G06PXGUEBHI/IMG_3035.jpg Essays Open book displaying a photograph of a rustic red cottage near a beach at Hushinish, Harris, with text on the opposite page titled 'Event Density' by Dan Hicks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596050497970-4P4ZINN1K3GI21AY98KX/Screenshot%2B2020-07-29%2Bat%2B20.17.01.jpg Essays A Micro-Manifesto for Museums in the Age of Covid-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/2caaf31e-e8c8-4b18-b48b-d3c79d77756d/Screenshot+2021-03-27+at+14.43.56.png Essays Britain stole the royal, sacred Benin Bronzes from Nigeria—so why is Germany leading their return? (Art Newspaper March 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596048791321-J4LF8IZ024QQJDZCB1P0/Screenshot+2020-07-29+at+19.52.45.png Essays The "universal museum" is a 21st-century myth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1597656339542-GR7P454IARO1JPM7DPYW/Screenshot+2020-08-17+at+10.24.25.png Essays Fallism and Restitution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596050725458-KJHRJZIQE7IX9UPQCI3A/ENng_DUWwAIKkJm.jpg Essays Sally Price and Dan Hicks on Sarr-Savoy one year on (Apollo Magazine January 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596062359434-4NPMUVQPE2903ARXS4NL/Screenshot+2020-07-29+at+23.38.46.png Essays Will Europe's Museums Rise to the Challenge of Decolonisation? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596048609174-92OU6PF4FX4JV3X85G83/Screenshot%25252B2020-07-29%25252Bat%25252B19.46.19.jpg Essays Reframing Archaeology and Anthropology in Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596049256075-TD6UL5RQQXPRCOM43MOM/Screenshot%25252B2020-07-29%25252Bat%25252B19.55.24.jpg Essays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596049275090-6UL4YG69B2393FPBS4OA/Screenshot%252B2020-07-29%252Bat%252B19.58.50.jpg Essays Title page of an essay titled "The Temporality of the Landscape Revisited" by Dan Hicks, discussing archaeological knowledge and its relationship with time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596049588369-YSWQ53MVJFGARSRPL7OS/Screenshot%252B2020-07-29%252Bat%252B20.02.41.jpg Essays Pitt Rivers 2065: the future of museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596052073013-RBX8DLEVLLRGKGFKERRL/Screenshot+2020-07-29+at+20.45.44.png Essays Artnet - Lockdown and Museums (May 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596107211079-W9OO33DIZV5R1BAWF60G/Screenshot+2020-07-30+at+12.02.12.png Essays Article discussing Dan Hicks, a professor of contemporary archaeology at Oxford University, and his work on the collaborative exhibition 'Lande: The Calais Jungle and Beyond' at the Pitt Rivers Museum. The project relates to borderwork and reimagining Calais as a (post)colonial space. Interview conducted by Leonie Hutch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596123530475-DY2N5HHKTGTOANNQF1TQ/letter+to+the+times+12+Feb+2020.jpg Essays Times letter page, 12 Feb 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/f513d60c-7d7e-4d8f-9340-0038d4bf9610/Screenshot+2021-05-18+at+22.38.42.png Essays Dan Hicks interview with Aditya Iyer for Al Jazeera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596125797949-QIHZ69YQY6JO3636QFEK/IMG_3042+2.jpg Essays McFadyen and Hicks Introduction: from Archaeography to Photology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596319075837-SI8ST3MWQEDYKPA26G04/Screenshot+2020-08-01+at+22.57.15.png Essays Stonehenge and the A303 https://www.danhicks.uk/about daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/47aa6de8-a4fd-4fd8-a568-05217258c5ed/DH_headshot_colour.jpg About Dan Hicks - About Dan Hicks Dan Hicks MA (Oxon), PhD, FSA, FRAI, MCIfA (born 1972) is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. For over thirty years Dan has researched the material and visual culture of the human past, up to and including the modern, colonial, contemporary and digital worlds His work operates across the “four As”: Archaeology, Anthropology Art, and Architecture. His curatorial interventions have ranged widely, and has included the co-curated exhibition and book Lande: the Calais “Jungle” and Beyond in 2019 and Victor Ehikhamenor at St Paul’s Cathedral in London in 2022. You can read a 2025 interview about his background, career and writing on the Society of Antiquaries of London website here. Dan’s latest book is Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting, published with Penguin, was named one of Art Forum’s Books of 2025, and he also recorded the audio book for Every Monument Will Fall. You can read an interview about the book in Jacobin Magazine here. Dan has published nine authored and edited books, including The Brutish Museums — which has been described as ‘the book that changed the conversation about the contemporary museum’. Dan has has written articles, essays and op-eds for a variety of journals, magazines and newspapers, for a wide range of audiences: from the Times Literary Supplement to The Art Newspaper, Apollo Magazine, Art Review, Artnet, Architectural Review, Frieze Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Independent. Dan has regularly appeared on live Radio and TV news and in documentaries, including BBC News at Ten, Channel 4 News, Sky News, LBC, Times Radio, and BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, The Moral Maze, The World Tonight, Front Row, The Today Programme and Making History. Dan was the Chair of Judges of the 2023 English PEN Hessel-Tiltman Book Prize. Among other appointments he has also been Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Archaeology at Stanford University (Fall 2024), Research Fellow in Archaeology at Boston University, Visiting Professor at the Musée du Quai Branly, Senior Fellow in Politics at the Free University of Berlin, Junior Proctor and a Trustee of the University of Oxford, and a non-executive director of Museum of London Archaeology. From 2026 Dan is a Trustee of the Bernie Grant Trust. Born in Durham, Dan grew up in Bristol and Birmingham. He has been Professor-Curator at Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum since 2007. For book publishing Dan is represented by Aeventis Creative. https://www.danhicks.uk/brutishmuseums daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606555508516-HBUVYF9KP7SGSHGTD2P2/Env21riW4AInZlq.jpg THE BRUTISH MUSEUMS Deaccessioning Empire - The New York Review of Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606555451296-K6QDN66YZAPXAE5T55Q9/EmOZWh-XMAIS19b.jpg THE BRUTISH MUSEUMS Guardian review The Brutish Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606556005595-E9M0VSP9XNTS4GIVQJRV/EnL450KW8AM0t3c.jpg THE BRUTISH MUSEUMS The Brutish Museums - Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1607540547722-JR4VRJKQZRZS9NEMKUEU/Screenshot+2020-12-08+at+18.10.11.png THE BRUTISH MUSEUMS Book review in Nature https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/ad877845-8d64-4363-b72a-8c81aa4f5386/Screenshot+2021-02-25+at+12.23.09.png THE BRUTISH MUSEUMS A newspaper or magazine article titled 'Deaccessioning Empire' by Coco Fusco, featuring a black and white illustration of an African sculpture head by William Kentridge. The article discusses topics related to the repatriation of cultural artifacts and museums. Book reviews for 'The Metabolic Museum' by Clémentine Deliss and 'The Brutish Museums' by Dan Hicks are included. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/cc9e5bf2-6a37-4ee4-a4ad-c8ffa105b67d/brutish+museums+cover.jpg THE BRUTISH MUSEUMS - My book The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution was published with Pluto Press in November 2020, and has been described as ‘the book that changed the conversation about the contemporary museum’. The Brutish Museums was named one of the New York Times List Best Art Books of 2020 and won the 2022 prize for the Best Book in Public History of the National Council on Public History, and was joint winner of the 2021 Elliott P Skinner Book Prize of the Association for Africanist Anthropology. The book was also shortlisted for the 2021 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing The novelist Ben Okri wrote of The Brutish Museums that ‘it is with books like this that cultures are saved’. https://www.danhicks.uk/media daily 0.75 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/c8100156-82a1-428f-946a-6030609ee3ca/Screenshot+2025-12-19+at+18.50.35.png TV AND RADIO Empire Lines X Dan Hicks recorded live at Oxford's Common Ground/Curio Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/fd17ca1d-2c94-4b96-bb2d-b2541651a7d4/Screenshot+2025-07-14+at+22.52.58.png TV AND RADIO Dan Hicks with Nihal Arthanayake on BBC 5 Live https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/b72d8c64-1ee8-4a5b-ba2b-25193f134d81/IMG_4028.jpg TV AND RADIO Speaking Out of Place Podcast (Stanford) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/dcef54d9-bfa4-4e1d-9af4-6200ff4a14ad/Screenshot+2025-08-23+at+11.49.57.png TV AND RADIO Artalogue podcast August 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/2648aca5-858c-47f8-a81c-c331ac3e77a1/IMG_5565.jpg TV AND RADIO This Guy Sucked podcast with Dan Hicks on George Pitt-Rivers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/cadc3763-e9b2-42c6-b83f-c16ee423899d/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+20.36.12.png TV AND RADIO Podcast with Speaking Archaeologically about Every Monument Will Fall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1cbfc3ce-5224-4fa6-ae77-88ef85f8955e/Screenshot+2025-05-21+at+20.59.40.png TV AND RADIO "Militarist Realism" Lecture in Rome, May 2025 (Vimeo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/eab107ae-ade7-4091-a33b-355f10d621de/flint+dibble.jpeg TV AND RADIO Podcast interview with Flint Dibble (Youtube) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/4576904e-1f45-4f54-95bd-e703e84ca367/Screenshot+2023-10-04+at+21.43.36.png TV AND RADIO Goethe Lecture 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606553482253-APLMM330SROAA3MLVE5R/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+08.50.14.png TV AND RADIO Pluto Press book launch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606651938818-EY2AU6O17Z6QY36NFLI9/EmIOpopW0AE4k2D.jpg TV AND RADIO Novara Media interview The Brutish Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606651845954-KB96RY4BCV03U297AR93/Screenshot%2B2020-11-29%2Bat%2B12.06.25.jpg TV AND RADIO Conversation with Adenike Cosgrove for IMO. DARA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606554914013-DARF4U3NQ6C5PFQV21AZ/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+09.14.21.png TV AND RADIO Tell A Friend Podcast - Dan Hicks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606553318529-JL9V52CKBBIOD2FQWBP0/EmIP_UHWkAASdLk.jpg TV AND RADIO Pluto Press podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/73208474-827b-4dff-8b94-b12de5891f9b/Screenshot+2021-04-05+at+15.09.10.png TV AND RADIO Channel 4 News report on the Benin Bronzes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596117671484-ZFHBUFSJT1E1R1VLPV5F/Screenshot+2020-07-30+at+08.48.18.png TV AND RADIO Radio 4 - In Our Time on Augustus Pitt-Rivers, with Melvyn Bragg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/63760269-077d-4bc7-baa9-7f7d4d2580ee/Screenshot+2021-04-06+at+00.14.42.png TV AND RADIO The 2021 Spence Lecture, University of Western Ontario https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596222553319-1RRSGHMKN32G3PD39JXU/Screenshot+2020-07-31+at+20.08.49.png TV AND RADIO Curating the Future, Episode 1, Radio 4, January 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606564930205-8QHFWCRPU7LOUP6FGYMX/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+12.01.46.png TV AND RADIO Radio 4 The Empty Cases https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/cf71e12d-1759-471c-8597-50c9163d3784/Screenshot+2021-04-05+at+15.01.53.png TV AND RADIO The Week in Art Podcast on the Benin Bronzes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606556670614-1L91DTG0P23Z0H2NMXM3/En1n4GbWMAIi-Qr.jpg TV AND RADIO Art Newspaper Podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606589375586-33MET7060889VHC80FRG/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+18.46.50.png TV AND RADIO Podcast episode cover for "The Things About Us: The Museum of Nicked Things" from The Mark Thomas Podcast, featuring an illustrated figure on a red background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606554781179-9NP66EGQ0CCNLWX47OBV/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+09.12.40.png TV AND RADIO Wandy and Bendy Podcast - Dan Hicks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606556516782-9VK0SYC231KAMNF502AN/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+09.40.46.png TV AND RADIO News Talk on Looted Artefacts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/ff331e06-8db6-4df1-83a9-3494e4a971c1/Screenshot+2021-04-05+at+15.04.23.png TV AND RADIO Art Angle Podcast on the Benin Bronzes (Part 2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/5c62cca8-e236-4a0b-9175-92e428d1cc4b/Screenshot+2021-04-05+at+15.04.32.png TV AND RADIO Art Angle Podcast (Artnet) on the Benin Bronzes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596118241704-0YAZKIIG0597BNZJ2V8M/Screenshot+2020-07-30+at+15.10.26.png TV AND RADIO Museotopia. Réflexions sur l'avenir des musées en Afrique. Table ronde 4 : Réinventer le musée (vibranium) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596223387985-NC7KIDNQCCVX7S1R5SCW/Screenshot+2020-07-31+at+20.22.35.png TV AND RADIO Sweeping the World, BBC Radio 4 (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606651874346-QXQ7IJ7QMSU2CJRRBB1A/Screenshot%2B2020-07-30%2Bat%2B08.44.43.jpg TV AND RADIO BBC News at Ten, June 2020 - interview with Will Gompertz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596117671480-QQE9DLU76TCDUCZTSK6F/Screenshot+2020-07-30+at+08.28.43.png TV AND RADIO Resonance FM - Podcast with Tom Overton for Suite 212 (May 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1596118434949-B9GQET7QG1QAYJYPMZOS/Screenshot+2020-07-30+at+15.13.06.png TV AND RADIO MuseumsShowoff on #MuseumsUnlocked (July 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/1606554291535-KGLY5VEN28HNVX21EUHF/Screenshot+2020-11-28+at+09.03.58.png TV AND RADIO Split-screen interview with two people, one labeled 'Megan' wearing headphones, the other labeled 'Dan Hicks' in front of a bookshelf. https://www.danhicks.uk/every-monument-will-fall daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/fa284d04-fb45-4abd-ade8-825bcff368c9/every_monument_will_fall_remembering_forgetting.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f208f037ea078377f212bf7/162a2ca2-c6e2-49f7-81a3-e534950232f3/Every+Monument+Will+Fall.png