Daniel J T McKay Author

Daniel J. T. McKay is a Cambridge-based historian, writer, and illustrator. He is the scion of a long line of cattle farmers in the Australian outback. Growing up in a terrible drought, he learnt to draw in the dust of a dry creek-bed. 

Having since sought out a green and pleasant land, Daniel recently completed a PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, as a member of Peterhouse, the oldest, smallest (and some might say quirkiest) college. Daniel’s work draws on his passion for history and delights in the forgotten, curious and, archaic. 

Inspired by his surroundings in Cambridge, the burgeoning study of Whimwondery has been growing ever more serious over the past few years and now, for the first time has been ransacked from his imagination and scrawled and scroobled upon the page by ink-smudged hands for the perusal of the public. 

In the moments when his imagination is chained up and told to behave, Daniel is a historian of political history. Presently, he is a Bye-Fellow of Emmanuel College and Director of their educational enrichment programme. Daniel is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society. He has degrees in law, history, and politics, and previously worked in the Commonwealth of Australia Parliamentary Library, the Country Education Foundation, and as a farm hand. Though harbouring no romantic ambitions to be a farmer himself, he retains his love of cows and their frolicsome and silly moods on windy days.