Dan Hicks

Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford University, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. Dan has written widely on colonial history, material culture, public memory, and the intersections of archaeology, architecture, anthropology and art. His books include The Brutish Museums and Every Monument Will Fall, and he has written widely for a variety of books, journals, magazines and newspapers, from Art Review and Architectural Review to Texte Zur Kunst, Museums Journal and the Guardian. Instagram: @ProfDanHicks

Books by Dan Hicks

Every Monument Will Fall

Dan Hicks

The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities — and one that has a deeper history than you might think.