Every Monument Will Fall

Every Monument Will Fall is an extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource. – Paul Gilroy
Hicks’ must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a drinking cup and used in a genteel Oxford college, well into the 21st century, as if empire were an eternal state of nature. Read it to see why the media adulation of aristocracy and monarchy conceals the long history of British state violence, slavery and racism. Read it to learn new ways to be anti-racist, abolitionist and to tell other stories than those commemorated by the monuments that surround us, from statues, to museums and the police. – Nicholas Mirzoeff, author of WHITE SIGHT
Thought-provoking, informative and vigorous * Observer *

Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford University, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.

He has written widely on art, archaeology, architecture, and anthropology for a variety of journals, magazines, and newspapers, including Art Review, Texte Zur Kunst, Architectural Review, Museums Journal, and The Guardian.

This is his second major authored book.

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