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Covers:  Museums, Arts, Culture, Legacies of Colonialism, Archaeology, Heritage, History, Empire, Restitution, Decolonisation, Universities, Teaching, Education, Curation, Anthropology, the "Culture War"

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Dan Hicks’s Biography

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Dan Hicks is an award-winning British writer, curator, professor, archaeologist and anthropologist. He is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. His 2020 book The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution was named one of the New York Times Art Books of 2020. His most recent book is Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting.

Dan Hicks’s Journalist Portfolio

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What Isn't at the V&A Storehouse

What Isn't at the V&A Storehouse

You can't escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

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The British Museum is an anachronism - here's how to fix it

The British Museum is an anachronism - here's how to fix it

The British Museum is an anachronism - here's how to fix it. The institution's image has been ruined. We need…

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'The last remaining argument against restitution has now been lost'

'The last remaining argument against restitution has now been lost'

To make the British Museum fit for the 21st century it must create a comprehensive publicly accessible databa…

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Are Museums Obsolete?

Are Museums Obsolete?

Dan Hicks contrasts the outdated A History of the World in 100 Objects with forward-looking ideas surrounding…

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Quels seront les prochains défis pour les restitutions culturelles ?

Quels seront les prochains défis pour les restitutions culturelles ?

Les trois courtes années qui se sont écoulées depuis la publication du Rapport Sarr- Savoy commandé par le pr…

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Let's Keep Colston Falling

Let's Keep Colston Falling

The statue of the slave trader is now on display in a museum, a year after it was pulled down by Black Lives …

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Articles

Table of Contents - January 15, 2026

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By Dan Hicks, David Szalay, Ian Penman, Derek Peterson
| Soundings from The New York Review
Skip to Content The Empire Gives Back What does a fair policy of museum repatriation look like? A new book considers the issue in terms of human rights, cultural sovereignty, and stewardship. Who Owns Beauty?
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One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall

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By Dan Hicks
| Jacobin Verified
Interview by Elias Feroz After years of heated debates over statues, museums, and so-called “cancel culture,” the fight over memory and heritage shows no sign of slowing down. Across the world, monuments that once seemed immovable have been toppled, renamed, or removed.
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What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse

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By Dan Hicks
| ArtReview Verified
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit You’ll find it on a spit of land in a meander of the A12 in East London, between Hackney Cut and the River Lea. It’s where the dog-racing track used to be. On Sundays thousands used to flock here to the flea market to buy bric-a-brac of uncertain provenance. Then the stadium was bulldozed in 2003, part of the clearances, displacements and compulsory purchase orders for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

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What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

The ever-unfolding story of the return of the Benin Bronzes

When's the best time to pitch you?

I'm a mornings kind of person

Awards

Rivers Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

2017 - Anthropology

awarded for a recent body of work published over a period of five which makes a significant contribution to social, physical or cultural anthropology or archaeology.

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