I’m Dan Hancox, a writer and editor from London - I’m interested in grassroots culture, radical politics, cities, grime, dance music, folk and other DIY subcultures, historical memory, food, gentrification, social history, proper binmen, multicultures, Spain and London. I tend to write mostly for The Guardian, but also countless others, from Newsweek to NY Times, Frieze to Fader, Vittles to Vice.

I co-host the Cursed Objects podcast.

I’ve written three non-fiction books:

Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World (2024)
Inner City Pressure (2018) - about grime, London, New Labour and gentrification
The Village Against the World (2013) - about a Spanish communist utopia

Here’s a New Yorker piece about my grime book.

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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)

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Dan Hancox

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I'm a writer from London, covering music, politics, society, food, Spain, urbanism and history. My books include MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World, and Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime. Co-host of Cursed Objects podcast