@danhancox
Journalist, author and podcaster from London
Multitudes on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed
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Multitudes on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed
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MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World - buy here
MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World - buy here
From raucous football matches and raves to rubber-bullet-riddled riots, Hancox takes us into the crowd’s pulsating heart to pose the questions that will define our age. Multitudes argues it is time to rethink long-held assumptions about crowd behaviour and psychology. The story of the modern world is the story of multi
Dan Hancox's Honor Oak Riot - my Substack
Dan Hancox's Honor Oak Riot - my Substack
I'm a writer from London, covering music, politics, society, food, Spain, urbanism and history. My next book is MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Oct 2024). Click to read Dan Hancox's Honor Oak Riot, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Cursed Objects - podcast
Cursed Objects - podcast
Imagine ‘show and tell’, but about how humanity has gone wrong. A podcast about big ideas, weird history - and tat. Join Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox as they get drunk in the gift shop with the Angel of History. Find us also on Apple, Spotify, or wherever...
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My Journalism Archive
My Journalism Archive
The majority of my writing has been for The Guardian or The Observer, but I’ve also written cover stories, exclusives, essays, reviews and reported features for Newsweek, London Review of Boo…
Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime (2018)
Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime (2018)
Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso) was published in hardback in 2024, and has received rave reviews in the Observer, New Statesman and New Yorker. Paperback Nov 2025. Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime (William Collins) was published 2018 in the UK and worldwide (hardback, ebook, audiobook), and in paperback Feb 2019. TV/Film…
The Village Against the World (2013)
The Village Against the World (2013)
One hundred kilometres from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the centre of a tireless struggle to create a living utopia. This unique community drew British author Dan Hancox to Spain, and here for the first time he recounts the fascinating story of villagers w
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