no matter what you think about Starmer and Mandelson, it’s clear that we’ve never needed @theguardian.com (who broke the story) more than we do today 🙏

Birmingham-based peeps, there are still tickets available for this in-person event organised by BRIHC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! A unique opportunity to hear @profdanhicks.bsky.social reflect on his work on heritage, memory and conflict in conversation with @corinnefowler.bsky.social

EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL PAPERBACK TOUR SPRING 2026 MON 27 APRIL SIENA UNIVERSITY (WITH TOMASO MONTANARI) THUR 30 APRIL BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY/THE HEATH BOOKSHOP (WITH CORINNE FOWLER & LEIRE OLABARRIA) TUES 5 MAY OXFORD DAUNT BOOKS SUMMERTOWN (WITH PAULA AKPAN) WEDS 6 MAY MANCHESTER MUSEUM (WITH SADIA HABIB) THURS 7 MAY LONDON WATERSTONES TRAFALGAR SQUARE (WITH SARAH STEIN LUBRANO) TUES 19 MAY BRISTOL EAST BRISTOL BOOKS (WITH MAI MUSIÉ) FRI JUNE 5 TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY/TORONTO BIENNALE (WITH SAMEER FAROOQ & TANDAZANI DHLAKANA) WEDS 10 JUNE PRISTINA, NATIONAL LIBRARY OF KOSOVO (WITH FRANÇOISE VERGÉS) SUN 14 JUNE CLEVEDON CURZON CINEMA AND ARTS (WITH THANGAM DEBBONAIRE) FULL DETAILS & TICKETS >> WWW.DANHICKS.UK

💥 EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL PAPERBACK TOUR SPRING 2026 💥

💫 Siena, Birmingham, Oxford, Manchester, London, Bristol, Toronto, Pristina, Clevedon 💫

🔥 Tickets >> www.danhicks.uk/talks 🙏

Princeton Art and Archaeology departmental logo

💥 I'm delighted to announce that I'll be giving the 2027 Haley Lecture for Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in March next year

🙏 watch this space for more details, and potentially some other US talks >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

FC St. Pauli | Der FC St. Pauli verleiht Peace Prize – Unterstützung… Der FC St. Pauli hat erstmals den „Peace Prize“ verliehen. Mit der Auszeichnung würdigt der Verein Menschen und Initiativen, die sich aktiv für…

Der #FCSP hat erstmals den "Peace Prize" in den USA verliehen. Mit der Auszeichnung würdigen wir Menschen und Initiativen, die sich für Solidarität, Teilhabe und ein respektvolles Miteinander einsetzen. Erster Preisträger: Wes Burdine, Betreiber der "Black Hart of St. Paul" in Minnesota.

Hungary has chosen Europe.

Europe has always chosen Hungary.

A country reclaims its European path.

The Union grows stronger.

Facebook post from Robert Jenrick, a politician who famously had Mickey Mouse cartoon murals painted over at a children’s asylum centre

a bizarre intervention on entry fees for museums and attractions from Robert Jenrick — and a fascinating comments section in which nobody seems to agree with this apparent Reform UK culture policy
www.facebook.com/share/18FNQ1...

My t-shirt saying any claims linking me to Epstein are defamatory has a lot of people asking questions that are answered by my shirt

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

"From National Heritage to Public Memory" - new from me on @labourlist.bsky.social labourhub.org.uk/2026/04/09/f...

As a Portuguese-British citizen, I feel it is my duty to add to your explainer article (Keir Starmalade, anyone? Will marmalade really have to be rebranded in UK?, 4 April) and explain where the word marmalade originated from. Marmalade comes from the fruit marmelo (quince). And marmalade was and is quince jam in Portugal. This jam began to be exported to England at the end of the 15th century. Only in the 17th century did the English start to apply the word marmalade to orange jam. As with many quintessential British things like tea, the English adopted it and made it their own. I like this story because my two countries are represented. Mónica Joyce Moniz Wyton, Cambridgeshire

Meanwhile, in the 'normal' world of RW disinformation, here's a nice letter about marmalade.
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

Cover of Every Monument Will Fall

loving the paperback cover 💥

Cover of Every Monument Will Fall

loving the paperback cover 💥

🙏✨

Folks in the West Mids: that is some line-up in Birmingham!

But, actually, they all look good.

with @corinnefowler.bsky.social @leireolabarria.bsky.social @paulaakpan.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social @drmaimusie.bsky.social @sameerfarooq.bsky.social @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social and more 💫🙏🙏

* note amended date for Bristo with @drmaimusie.bsky.social l, now Tues 19 May 🙏

EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL PAPERBACK TOUR SPRING 2026 MON 27 APRIL SIENA UNIVERSITY (WITH TOMASO MONTANARI) THUR 30 APRIL BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY/THE HEATH BOOKSHOP (WITH CORINNE FOWLER & LEIRE OLABARRIA) TUES 5 MAY OXFORD DAUNT BOOKS SUMMERTOWN (WITH PAULA AKPAN) WEDS 6 MAY MANCHESTER MUSEUM (WITH SADIA HABIB) THURS 7 MAY LONDON WATERSTONES TRAFALGAR SQUARE (WITH SARAH STEIN LUBRANO) TUES 19 MAY BRISTOL EAST BRISTOL BOOKS (WITH MAI MUSIÉ) FRI JUNE 5 TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY/TORONTO BIENNALE (WITH SAMEER FAROOQ & TANDAZANI DHLAKANA) WEDS 10 JUNE PRISTINA, NATIONAL LIBRARY OF KOSOVO (WITH FRANÇOISE VERGÉS) SUN 14 JUNE CLEVEDON CURZON CINEMA AND ARTS (WITH THANGAM DEBBONAIRE) FULL DETAILS & TICKETS >> WWW.DANHICKS.UK

💥 EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL PAPERBACK TOUR SPRING 2026 💥

💫 Siena, Birmingham, Oxford, Manchester, London, Bristol, Toronto, Pristina, Clevedon 💫

🔥 Tickets >> www.danhicks.uk/talks 🙏

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

the wrecking ball moves on from the east wing to the wider landscape of American science and social science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump: "Iran was a great country if you go back 25 years ago or so"

(the Iranian Revolution was in 1979)

A presidential truth social post that is like the worst one yet

this remake of Dr Strangelove is much less funny than the original

Stay with the Fragments: Thoughts on Monuments, Museums, and Memory

ICONOCLASH 2.0: EPISTEMOLOGIES, AFFECTS AND THE POLITICS OF UNDOING HERITAGE

Conference schedule Iconoclash 2.0

Toppling the Nonhuman abstract

💫 I’m giving two talks in Lisbon next week

💥 Wednesday 8 April at 14.30 at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal on "Staying With the Fragments"

✨ Thurs 9 June “Toppling the Nonhuman" at the Iconoclash 2.0 conference

See some of you there! 🇵🇹

NYTImes calls NATO the “North American treaty organization”

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

Stay with the Fragments: Thoughts on Monuments, Museums, and Memory

ICONOCLASH 2.0: EPISTEMOLOGIES, AFFECTS AND THE POLITICS OF UNDOING HERITAGE

Conference schedule Iconoclash 2.0

Toppling the Nonhuman abstract

💫 I’m giving two talks in Lisbon next week

💥 Wednesday 8 April at 14.30 at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal on "Staying With the Fragments"

✨ Thurs 9 June “Toppling the Nonhuman" at the Iconoclash 2.0 conference

See some of you there! 🇵🇹

at some point the election pundits will have to find a better word than ‘populism’

I mean, how about ‘unpopulism’? 🙃💫❤️💯

💯

💥Every Monument Will Fall
UK Paperback Tour Spring 2026

Thur 30 April Birmingham
Fri 1 May London
Tue 5 May Oxford
Wed 6 May Manchester
Thurs 7 May Bristol

More details/tickets here >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

💫glad to hear!

I don’t know about you lot but personally speaking, with everything that’s going on in the world right now, this year the very idea of April Fools felt somehow deeply abhorrent 🙃💫❤️

yes! 💯🎯