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Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙

@kaydaly.bsky.social

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#Earlymodern nerd. Hired pen. Curator of hipsters. Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. #Tudor? Sure. #Jacobean? SIGN ME UP.

Coming Spring 2027, "Wilton House," a novel of Lady #MaryWroth. @regalhouse.bsky.social. Stay tuned! https://www.kaydalywriter.com

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@onslies.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:56 AMReposted by @kaydaly.bsky.social

In Blois for the history fest and it is absurdly joyful. Massive book fair! Enormous queues for talks! Teachers, academics, publishers, podcasters, librarians, all having a fab natter about history! Making history supporting the “mouvement social”! This is the discipline that’s not worth saving?

Picture of a hand holding a booklet about Natalie Zemon Davis in front of a castlePicture of a banner at the entrance of a university building in support of the pupils who are pulling up barricades
@sheepdaily.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:15 AMReposted by @kaydaly.bsky.social

Sunbaaathing ☀️

A pair of white lambs resting on a sunlit patch of green grass and dry soil. The left lamb is facing up with closed eyes and a content smile, and the right is curled in and facing down. Photo via a_prokopovic on Pinterest
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:00 PMReposted by @kaydaly.bsky.social

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

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@dbellingradt.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:25 AMReposted by @kaydaly.bsky.social

Wrong answers only. My bet: thanks for all the fish.

Newspaper headline: Queen Elizabeth’s Final Diary Entry Contained Only Five Words.
@beyondshakes.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:04 AMReposted by @kaydaly.bsky.social

🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - we're zipping past King Leir to the really rather harrowing end of Cordila. Higgins' goes all medieval on us, as Despair turns up with a present for the ousted Queen. #literature #history #Patreon #Exclusive www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:33 PM

I was very bummed not to be there. But hey! I got spend and hour and a half editing audio, so i got that going for me.

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:26 PM

Helping

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:06 PM

@volts.wtfOct 5, 2026, 8:07 PMReposted by @kaydaly.bsky.social

Holy shit.

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@beetlemoses.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:45 PMReposted by @kaydaly.bsky.social

Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:31 PM

It was an honor and a pleasure to speak with Philip Rowe of @thoetp.bsky.social. We had a delightful chat about Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist" and PLAGUE...

@michaelpearce.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:21 PMReposted by @kaydaly.bsky.social

Pregnancy, health, ciphers and secrecy in early modern letters. The Countess of Westmorland to her daughter Grace.

vanishedcomforts.org/2026/04/16/c...

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 3:53 AM

Just another Saturday night

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:27 PM

I'll have to check that out. I recently watched "Outrageous" (a miniseries about the Mitford sisters) and "Impromptu" (1991), which I found quite amusing.

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:25 PM

Also, I went to look at the recipe and have zero (0) of the ingredients. A MA'HA''A' IT IS!

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:24 PM

What costume drama????

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:24 PM

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 8:31 PM

This. Workday. Can't. End. Soon. Enough.

@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 2:22 PM

"I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it"

Gearing up for next week's seminar "The Crucible and its Afterlife" at the Newberry next week, where be discussing one of the BIG questions in literary education with Chicago-area teachers.
#IFKYK #Humanities #PublicHumanities #Teachers #literature

slide from a powerpoint presentation for the course "The Crucible and its afterlife". Includes image from a production of "John Proctor is the Villain" that shows the characters Shelby and raelynn with hands clasped swinging in a circle as part of their interpretive dance, which is the climax of the play. the slide reads: THE BIG QUESTION. What is this play [or any work of art] about? Is it confined to original intentions and context? Or can it grow and change?
@kaydaly.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:42 PM

slide that reworks Miller's quote as: what terrifies, intrigues, dominate, concerns the current generation can seem irrelevant, a misreading, distracting, out of context, perverse, misguided, just plain wrong to the previous.
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