Dan Hicks

Dan Hicks is a British cultural historian, archaeologist and professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford, where he is also curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Every Monument Will Fall examines the global reckoning with colonial monuments and contested heritage that has intensified in recent years, exploring how statues, memorials and museum collections reflect and perpetuate histories of empire, slavery and racial injustice. Hicks brings rigorous scholarship and moral clarity to one of the most contentious cultural debates of our time, arguing that confronting the material legacies of colonialism is essential to building a more just and honest society. He is also the author of The Brutish Museums, which made the case for the return of the Benin Bronzes. His work has been influential in shaping public and institutional debates about decolonisation, restitution and the ethics of cultural heritage. His audiobooks and books offer readers deeply researched and provocative contributions to one of the defining cultural conversations of the twenty-first century.