Skip to main content

Dan Hicks

University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, Faculty Member

University of Oxford, School of Archaeology, Faculty Member

University of Oxford, St. Cross College, Faculty Member

University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Faculty Member

University of Oxford, Institiute of Archaeology, Faculty Member

University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty Member

Museum of London Archaeology, Board, Trustee and Non-Executive Director

Followers

16,212

Following

2,853

Co-authors

9

Public Views

Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. More info: https://www.danhicks.uk/
Phone: +44 (0)1865 613011
Address: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford. OX1 3PP. UK

less

Ingrid S Gessner

Pädagogische Hochschule Vorarlberg

Pedro Paulo A . Funari

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

De Montfort University

Boston University

Jenny Krichevsky

Martin Brückner

University of Delaware

Bard College

Matthew D. Cochran

InterestsView All (92)

Uploads

Books by Dan Hicks

The Brutish Museums - PREVIEW

The Brutish Museums The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, 2020

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behin... more Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.

Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections.

The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.

Isle of Rust: a portrait of Lewis and Harris

Isle of Rust: a portrait of Lewis and Harris

Alex Boyd, with Jonathan Meades and Dan Hicks

Archaeology and Photography: time, objectivity and archive

Archaeology and Photography: time, objectivity and archive., 2019

Lesley McFadyen and Dan Hicks (eds) 2019. Archaeology and Photography: time, objectivity and arch... more

LANDE: THE CALAIS 'JUNGLE' AND BEYOND

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004862 Ho... more Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004862 How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais “Jungle” – the informal camp where, before its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived. LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand ‘crisis’, activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the politics of environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire. Introducing a major collaborative exhibit at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the book argues that an anthropological focus on duration, impermanence and traces of the most recent past can recentre the ongoing human experiences of displacement in Europe today.

Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

by Dan Hicks and Mary Beaudry

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, 2010

volume such as this. First in any acknowledgements for this book must come our 34 contributing au... more volume such as this. First in any acknowledgements for this book must come our 34 contributing authors, to whom we are indebted for their excellent chapters, their accommodation of our comments and requests, and their speedy replies that kept up the momentum of the editorial process for such a large book. We are also grateful to our commissioning editor at OUP, Hilary O'Shea, for the initial idea for this book, and for her patience as we delivered it. Lisa Hill and Sefryn Penrose played an invaluable role in assisting with the proof reading of the manuscript. As the volume took shape and developed, we benefited greatly from discussions with and comments from a range of colleagues. Sometimes these were in relation to specific issues that arose during the editorial process, while sometimes they were in a more oblique connection to the project, but in all cases they played a central role in forming the end product. Special thanks here, in addition to our contributors, are due to

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization

Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage

Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage, 2007

Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage

Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

by Dan Hicks and Mary Beaudry

An overview of global thinking in historical archaeology

The Garden of the World: an historical archaeology of Eastern Caribbean sugar landscapes

Hicks, D. 2007. The Garden of the World: a historical archaeology of sugar landscapes in the east... more

Papers by Dan Hicks

Everyday Objects

Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry. , 2022

Dan Hicks 2022. Everyday Objects. In C. White (ed.) A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of I... more

Afterword: historical archaeology in the wider discipline

Introduction: the place of historical archaeology

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 26, 2006

Historical archaeology -a phrase used by archaeologists to describe the archaeology of the period... more Historical archaeology -a phrase used by archaeologists to describe the archaeology of the period from around AD 1500 up to and including the present -is unusual in its emergence as a new field of enquiry since the 1950s. This collection of contrasting chapters aims to capture the energy and diversity of contemporary anthropological historical archaeology, and to open up this material, which remains virtually unmentioned in conventional accounts of archaeological thought (e.g. Trigger 1990), to a wider archaeological and interdisciplinary readership. For some, the notion of 'historical archaeology' will appear tautological. Archaeology is often seen as the search for the remains of distant, prehistoric societies, or of Classical or Near Eastern civilisations. For others, the fact that archaeologists have neglected the most recent past -the periods studied most commonly by other disciplines, and from which massive quantities of materials survive -will appear perverse. Our commitment to this editorial project, however, derives from our understanding of archaeology as a contemporary project with a distinctive bundle of methods and practices, which works on the material remains of human societies from all periods. The volume is offered as an open-minded and varied contribution to those interested in the role of material things in human social life, and in what survives from the recent past. We view the diversity of anthropological historical archaeology as a principal strength of the field, and therefore do not wish in an introduction to summarise the complex, sophisticated and sometimes contrasting arguments and approaches of our contributors. Instead, in this short introductory chapter we want to present some brief thoughts that have emerged during twelve months of editorial exchanges between the American east coast and the English west country. From this partial perspective, we consider how 'the place of historical archaeology' looks from here, underlining the creative and hybrid nature of this field 1 www.cambridge.org

Reply to Comments: Meshwork Fatigue

Norwegian Archaeological Review, Jan 2, 2016

The Temporality of the Landscape Revisited

Norwegian Archaeological Review, Jan 2, 2016

North America

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks, Mar 8, 2013

Central America

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks, Mar 8, 2013

Historical archaeology and time

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 26, 2006

India and Sri Lanka

Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum

British Art Studies, 2021

Easter Island and Pitcairn Island

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, 2013

ABSTRACT The Pitt-Rivers Museum holds c. 667 artefacts from Rapa Nui and c. 93 from Pitcairn Isla... more

The Brutish Museums - PREVIEW

The Brutish Museums The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, 2020

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behin... more Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.

Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections.

The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.

Isle of Rust: a portrait of Lewis and Harris

Isle of Rust: a portrait of Lewis and Harris

Alex Boyd, with Jonathan Meades and Dan Hicks

Archaeology and Photography: time, objectivity and archive

Archaeology and Photography: time, objectivity and archive., 2019

Lesley McFadyen and Dan Hicks (eds) 2019. Archaeology and Photography: time, objectivity and arch... more

LANDE: THE CALAIS 'JUNGLE' AND BEYOND

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004862 Ho... more Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004862 How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais “Jungle” – the informal camp where, before its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived. LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand ‘crisis’, activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the politics of environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire. Introducing a major collaborative exhibit at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the book argues that an anthropological focus on duration, impermanence and traces of the most recent past can recentre the ongoing human experiences of displacement in Europe today.

Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

by Dan Hicks and Mary Beaudry

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, 2010

volume such as this. First in any acknowledgements for this book must come our 34 contributing au... more volume such as this. First in any acknowledgements for this book must come our 34 contributing authors, to whom we are indebted for their excellent chapters, their accommodation of our comments and requests, and their speedy replies that kept up the momentum of the editorial process for such a large book. We are also grateful to our commissioning editor at OUP, Hilary O'Shea, for the initial idea for this book, and for her patience as we delivered it. Lisa Hill and Sefryn Penrose played an invaluable role in assisting with the proof reading of the manuscript. As the volume took shape and developed, we benefited greatly from discussions with and comments from a range of colleagues. Sometimes these were in relation to specific issues that arose during the editorial process, while sometimes they were in a more oblique connection to the project, but in all cases they played a central role in forming the end product. Special thanks here, in addition to our contributors, are due to

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization

Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage

Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage, 2007

Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage

Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

by Dan Hicks and Mary Beaudry

An overview of global thinking in historical archaeology

The Garden of the World: an historical archaeology of Eastern Caribbean sugar landscapes

Hicks, D. 2007. The Garden of the World: a historical archaeology of sugar landscapes in the east... more

Everyday Objects

Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry. , 2022

Dan Hicks 2022. Everyday Objects. In C. White (ed.) A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of I... more

Afterword: historical archaeology in the wider discipline

Introduction: the place of historical archaeology

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 26, 2006

Historical archaeology -a phrase used by archaeologists to describe the archaeology of the period... more Historical archaeology -a phrase used by archaeologists to describe the archaeology of the period from around AD 1500 up to and including the present -is unusual in its emergence as a new field of enquiry since the 1950s. This collection of contrasting chapters aims to capture the energy and diversity of contemporary anthropological historical archaeology, and to open up this material, which remains virtually unmentioned in conventional accounts of archaeological thought (e.g. Trigger 1990), to a wider archaeological and interdisciplinary readership. For some, the notion of 'historical archaeology' will appear tautological. Archaeology is often seen as the search for the remains of distant, prehistoric societies, or of Classical or Near Eastern civilisations. For others, the fact that archaeologists have neglected the most recent past -the periods studied most commonly by other disciplines, and from which massive quantities of materials survive -will appear perverse. Our commitment to this editorial project, however, derives from our understanding of archaeology as a contemporary project with a distinctive bundle of methods and practices, which works on the material remains of human societies from all periods. The volume is offered as an open-minded and varied contribution to those interested in the role of material things in human social life, and in what survives from the recent past. We view the diversity of anthropological historical archaeology as a principal strength of the field, and therefore do not wish in an introduction to summarise the complex, sophisticated and sometimes contrasting arguments and approaches of our contributors. Instead, in this short introductory chapter we want to present some brief thoughts that have emerged during twelve months of editorial exchanges between the American east coast and the English west country. From this partial perspective, we consider how 'the place of historical archaeology' looks from here, underlining the creative and hybrid nature of this field 1 www.cambridge.org

Reply to Comments: Meshwork Fatigue

Norwegian Archaeological Review, Jan 2, 2016

The Temporality of the Landscape Revisited

Norwegian Archaeological Review, Jan 2, 2016

North America

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks, Mar 8, 2013

Central America

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks, Mar 8, 2013

Historical archaeology and time

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 26, 2006

India and Sri Lanka

Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum

British Art Studies, 2021

Easter Island and Pitcairn Island

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, 2013

ABSTRACT The Pitt-Rivers Museum holds c. 667 artefacts from Rapa Nui and c. 93 from Pitcairn Isla... more

Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, 2013

The PRM founding collection was donated to the University four years after Pitt-Rivers had inheri... more The PRM founding collection was donated to the University four years after Pitt-Rivers had inherited a large estate (and his new surname): an event that transformed his life. 1 After 1884, and especially through the activities of Henry Balfour, who was Curator of the Museum between 1891 and 1939, the PRM collections rapidly grew in size (cf. Balfour 1893(cf. Balfour , 1906)). Today, the Museum is a very different collection from that donated by the General: it holds c. 312,686 artefacts, as well as more than 174,000 photographs 2 and extensive manuscript collections. The 'typological' arrangement of archaeological and anthropological material in the Museum (Lane Fox 1884; Pitt-Rivers 1891) was reimagined and reordered under the curatorships of Balfour,

Ethnicity, Race and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Assemblage, 2000

The issue of ethnicity has been little considered by British post-medieval archaeology. Archaeolo... more The issue of ethnicity has been little considered by British post-medieval archaeology. Archaeology has unique access to evidence of the role of material culture in the expression and negotiation of historical identities. This paper aims to provide a theoretical framework for the study of ethnicity in the post-medieval period. Many archaeological discussions of ethnicity take a ‘situationist’ approach, emphasising individuals’ choice from a range of available identities. Yet in the study of the West Indian colonial societies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in which ethnic identity cannot be considered in isolation from the extreme power relations of nascent racial slavery, the application of a model of ‘individual choice’ is problematic. In this light, the role of Bristol City Museum in recent successful attempts to present the multicultural heritage of Bristol’s historical involvement in the Atlantic slave trade in is outlined. The potential for the new ‘inclusive’ age...

Les actes de colloques du musée du quai Branly, 2017

Au pôle conservation-restauration, nous partons de l'objet. Avec la présentation de Wayne Modest,... more Au pôle conservation-restauration, nous partons de l'objet. Avec la présentation de Wayne Modest, nous avons vu que l'on peut partir d'encore plus loin et partir directement du matériau et de toutes les interrogations qu'a soulevée la présence même de ce matériau dans tel ou tel objet sur le plan matériel, sur le plan de l'économie, de l'écologie, des symboles. Nous avons également vu que la matérialité des collections peut être un peu transcendée par une approche analytique non invasive qui permet ensuite de recréer des objets tels que des impressions 3D ce qui pose un certain nombre de questions déontologiques quant au rapport que l'on a à l'objet lui-même, à son image, à sa reproduction dans une résine. Avec Christine, nous avons vu que les images qui sont à la fois des supports matériels et une présence immatérielle peuvent faire l'objet d'une réinterrogation contemporaine, y compris en liaison avec des populations ou des individus qui se voient représentés dans des photographies plus anciennes. Et puis, que ces objets eux-mêmes peuvent servir de support à toutes sortes de réflexions et de pratiques d'ordre ethnographique. Par exemple, lorsque la redécouverte d'un objet permet la réactivation d'une cérémonie, d'un rite ou lorsque par l'analyse que l'on va faire ici sur des collections existantes, une technique disparue aux Marquises peut être réinvestie par les populations locales. Dan Hicks nous a montré à quel point les collections matérielles des musées sont au centre d'un réseau de questionnement beaucoup plus large puisqu'ils nous permettent de réfléchir sur les relations entre les cultures et sur les concepts qu'ils font émerger, ce qui l'a amené à dire que les musées n'étaient pas seulement pleins de collections, mais qu'ils étaient pleins de savoirs et qu'ils étaient producteurs de savoirs. Chacun à sa façon, les intervenants ont démontré que l'on produisait du savoir, que cette recherche sur la matérialité des objets produisait des savoirs que l'on exploitait ici ou là, en général en relation avec les sociétés qui ont produit ces objets.

Table ronde : la matérialité des collections : formes d’archives et de pratiques

Les actes de colloques du musée du quai Branly, 2017

Le musée du quai Branly a fait un choix tout à fait fondamental de constituer un pôle comportant ... more Le musée du quai Branly a fait un choix tout à fait fondamental de constituer un pôle comportant trois secteurs d'activité, la conservation préventive, les analyses et la Table ronde : la matérialité des collections : formes d'archives et de pratiques Les actes de colloques du musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, 8 | 2017

Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and Beyond

Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond, 2019

Contents Preface vi 1 Introduction: borderline archaeology 2 Environmental hostility 3 Temporal v... more Contents Preface vi 1 Introduction: borderline archaeology 2 Environmental hostility 3 Temporal violence 4 Visual politics 5 Giving time Notes References Index V This book looks at La Lande -the site of the 'Jungle' at Calais during the years 2015 to 2016 -through the lens of Contemporary Archaeology. Such an approach draws on the distinctive focus on material culture, the built environment, and landscapes and ecologies, that emerge through the application of approaches from anthropological archaeology to the most recent past and the undocumented present. This exercise in Contemporary Archaeology aims to expand the field of material culture studies (Hicks, 2010) through a foregrounding of place, time, transformation, visuality, (post)colonial legacies, and intervention, and also to open new dialogues with the anthropological museum as a political space. The book is a companion volume to an exhibit, also titled Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and beyond, displayed at the Pitt Rivers Museum during 2019. Taken together, the book and the exhibit aim to raise cross-disciplinary questions around the material, environmental, temporal and visual dimensions of La Lande as a place of dehumanising borderwork, governance and violence on the one hand, and on the other as a 'space of appearance' and protest, and as a site for comparison. In this respect, they also represent a contribution to the prospect of a Visual Archaeology, and towards the possibilities of Activist Archaeologies that engage with a wider cross-cultural moment of visual politics. We introduce the idea of giving time as one way of conceptualising the work of archaeologists in the contemporary world that takes inspiration from the many grassroots movements around Calais. We also introduce the idea of militarist colonialism as a key part of the ongoing human and material legacies encountered at La Lande. The cover image of this book, also reproduced as the frontispiece, is a photo-illustration by Majid Adin titled 'The VI VII PREFACE beyond the urgency can we really understand La Lande in all its contradictions.

The Temporality of the Landscape Revisited

Norwegian Archaeological Review, 2016

Reply to Comments: Meshwork Fatigue

Norwegian Archaeological Review, 2016

Easter Island and Pitcairn

In Hicks D and Stephenson a World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum Archaeopress Oxford, 2013

Introduction: the place of historical archaeology

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

Historical archaeology -a phrase used by archaeologists to describe the archaeology of the period... more Historical archaeology -a phrase used by archaeologists to describe the archaeology of the period from around AD 1500 up to and including the present -is unusual in its emergence as a new field of enquiry since the 1950s. This collection of contrasting chapters aims to capture the energy and diversity of contemporary anthropological historical archaeology, and to open up this material, which remains virtually unmentioned in conventional accounts of archaeological thought (e.g. Trigger 1990), to a wider archaeological and interdisciplinary readership. For some, the notion of 'historical archaeology' will appear tautological. Archaeology is often seen as the search for the remains of distant, prehistoric societies, or of Classical or Near Eastern civilisations. For others, the fact that archaeologists have neglected the most recent past -the periods studied most commonly by other disciplines, and from which massive quantities of materials survive -will appear perverse. Our commitment to this editorial project, however, derives from our understanding of archaeology as a contemporary project with a distinctive bundle of methods and practices, which works on the material remains of human societies from all periods. The volume is offered as an open-minded and varied contribution to those interested in the role of material things in human social life, and in what survives from the recent past. We view the diversity of anthropological historical archaeology as a principal strength of the field, and therefore do not wish in an introduction to summarise the complex, sophisticated and sometimes contrasting arguments and approaches of our contributors. Instead, in this short introductory chapter we want to present some brief thoughts that have emerged during twelve months of editorial exchanges between the American east coast and the English west country. From this partial perspective, we consider how 'the place of historical archaeology' looks from here, underlining the creative and hybrid nature of this field 1 www.cambridge.org

"Archaeology + Anthropology": A Debate between Dan Hicks and Tim Ingold

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford 8pm Monday 14 November 2016

On the Treatment of Dead Enemies (Public Lecture, Glasgow 1 Nov 2016)

I'm looking forward to giving this public lecture and masterclass on Tuesday 1 November in Glasgo... more I'm looking forward to giving this public lecture and masterclass on Tuesday 1
November in Glasgow. It's for for a newly-formed graduate programme for
material culture research titled Collections: an Enlightenment Pedagogy for
the 21st Century, which is led by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and
Humanties at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the Hunterian
Museum and the Leverhulme Trust. The lecture is in the Kelvin Hall Lecture
Cinema, and the event is from 5pm to 7pm. You can sign up for the event,
which is free, on the eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stuff-of-research-masterclass-prof-dan-hicks-tickets-28722764562

Ordnance and Survey: archaeological field collections of Augustus Henry Lane Fox

This talk will introduce current research into the early archaeological fieldwork of Augustus Hen... more This talk will introduce current research into the early archaeological fieldwork of Augustus Henry Lane Fox (later Pitt-Rivers), assemblages from which have been recently re-discovered at the Pitt Rivers Museum. The paper considers the potential of these collections, made between c. 1864 and 1880, as a resource for writing the material history of archaeological practice, rather than purely the social or intellectual history of archaeological thought.

The Museum as Field Site (Reading University Research Seminar)

The Materials of De-Industrialization (Ruskin Public History Group)

The Museum as Field Site (UCL Research Seminar)

What is a Fragment? Forms of the Material, the Cultural, & the Interdisciplinary.

17th March 2011, 6pm - 8pm Lecture for Material Life of Things Research Project, Courtauld Insti... more 17th March 2011, 6pm - 8pm

Lecture for Material Life of Things Research Project, Courtauld Institute.

With Professor Danny Miller (UCL) as Discussant.

This paper reflects upon the status of the idea of 'the fragment' in contemporary interdisciplinary material culture studies. In doing so, it uses anthropological thinking to interrogate how we comprehend the forms that the material, the cultural, and the interdisciplinary can take in the study of things.

More details: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/projects/materiallifeofthings.shtml

What is an object?

Britain must give the Benin Bronzes back to Africa -it's our moral duty

The Daily Telegraph, 2020

Britain must give the Benin Bronzes back to Africa – it’s our moral duty The Daily Telegraph 5 N... more

The UK government is trying to draw museums into a fake culture war

The Guardian, 2020

The UK government is trying to draw museums into a fake culture war The Guardian 15 October 2020 ... more

BBC Radio 4, In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, on General Pitt-Rivers

Excavating Pitt-Rivers (Designation Development Fund) Final Report December 2013

Through an award of £76,654 from the Designation Development Fund, Excavating Pitt-Rivers has enh... more Through an award of £76,654 from the Designation Development Fund, Excavating Pitt-Rivers has enhanced the care, documentation and public understanding of the earliest archaeological collections that were acquired by General Augustus Pitt-Rivers from sites across England, and which are held at the Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM). Led by Dr Dan Hicks (Lecturer-Curator in Archaeology), the project team has documented, photographed and published to the Museum's online database c. 10,687 archaeological objects that were collected and excavated by General Pitt-Rivers from across England between c. 1864 and 1880.