Sacha Coward

@sachacoward.bsky.social

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LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.

Me. Looking fearfully over my shoulder at a road sign that says 40.
Me. I'm sat next to a green canvas with a rough approximation of a building and a figure in white... kind of like a strange... Forest.. Temple...
Michael Waldron admiring a Robin on a microphone!
Me sat in the pavilion of Bantry house. I'm giving a talk, I'm holding a microphone and grinning.
Me holding my book beside Michael Waldron (who chaired my talk beautifully) at Bantry House.
A dummy crushed by an anvil. The dummy is labelled 'me'. The anvil is labelled 'whelm'.
Me at Dulwich Picture Gallery pointing at Saint Sebastian by Guido Reni.
A scene from the Babadook. The mother is in a car shouting 'why can't you just be normal?'. The boy replies by screaming!
Me, in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, in fairy wings because why not?!
Me. Grinning. In a unicorn tanktop. With an Oscar Wilde compendium.
A cartoon drawing of me. I'm in badly fitting clothes, crosseyed, but my biceps are big.
Me and my friend Rebecca. We are in a garden holding plant pots looking patently riddiculous...
Me and dad sitting outside his carehome, he has headphones in his ears. I'm playing DJ!
A linked in message reading: 'Hi there Sacha! My name is [NAME] Are damp and mould compliance challenges putting pressure on your housing stock?'
An image of the Evening Standard website. It includes a man pointing at an air conditioner, a man pointing at eggs, a woman pointing at an air conditioner and two elderly people at a funeral.
Me. I'm in a wicker chair outside. Reading a book of Noël Coward's Letters. Yes I am posing. Yes I am flexing.
The top of a Google document, the title is 'Things you have to do even though you don't want to'
Me and the Fablibs. We are an improv troop, there are 7 of us posing in different primary colours!
Me at Borderless Books in Stroud in a talk hosted by Kate Young. I'm in an armchair, my book is on shelves behind my head.
Me. In front of a nondescript looking wall, gesticulting at people!
Me. In a tanktop, looking anxious, holding a pile of 9 random books that are blue or have ice in the title...
Ceri Houlbrook and me holding our books at the weird Leeds event in Leeds.
Three intersecting coloured circles. Labeled: Difficult, Vague and Tedious. At the intersection of Diffucult and Vague is a ghost emoji. Difficult and Tedious is a brick wall. Vague and Tedious is a cloud. In the centre where they all overlap is a skull.
Cat basket, with a furry rump inside!
Me, with my book in a hair salon!
An illustration of Smaug the dragon in The Hobbit curled up on a vast pile of treasure.
Me. In awe. In front of a wonderful pot with spider/crab legs by the incredible ceramacist Rose Schmits!
Me at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in front of a portrait of James I/VI
Me. Without a beard. Like a haunted Mormon potato.
Me. I'm sat on a log. I'm in a superman tshirt, arms folded, flexing for dear life.
Six of us on the floor, on all fours. One guy stood hands raised. It's just an improv class but we look crackers...
Two images one above the other: The top shows the character Rocky from the film Project Hail Mary. He is a five legged alien, raising two limbs in the air saying 'Amaze, Amaze, Amaze'. Below is me in a tshirt that says 'Amaze, Amaze, Amaze' doing a similar pose.
A stylised W and Y in rainbow and trans flag colours. The slogan 'Weland Yutani' and 'Building better worlds'.
An etching of a muscular clawed humanoid being with a unicorn head and a crown surrounded by trumpets.
Me, leaning against a wall with a tortoise shell cat stretching behind me.
Me at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in front of a painting of Saint Sebastian
Jason Okundaye, me and Emily Garside in front of big pink letters spelling 'HAY' at the Hay Festival at Hay On Wye.
Me on a train. My laptop is on the left and I'm in a red Owlbear tanktop.
Me and my husband. We're in a town hall. I'm blowing out birthday candles next to a screen with a projector showing Jurassic Park.
It's me. Sitting on a bench at the gym. I'm in a yellow tshirt. The angle and lighting makes me look trapezoid shaped.
Order confirmation for one of Rose's spider pots!
My cat, licking my face, but it kind of looks like he's telling me a secret!
Me, in front of a screen, giving a talk. There are four images shown where I am gesticulating wildly with a manic facial expression!
Me. In the woods. In a yellow tshirt. Posing.
Merry and Pippin from the lord of the rings, from the scene where Merry asks Aragorn about second breakfast. But the text reads: 'well, what about the homoerotic vases?' and the reply from Merry is 'I dont think they've seen the homoerotic vases Pippin...'
Me. I'm carrying two medieval style wooden buckets at Jennings Brewery in Cumbria.
Thank you for that response—it genuinely made me smile. I have to say, if anyone could weave dinosaur eggs into a pancake recipe and make it historically compelling, it would be someone with your storytelling instincts. Perhaps a chapter for the next book? Jokes aside, your playful spirit actually reinforces what I wrote to you yesterday. That wit—the ability to hold sacred histories and irreverent humor in the same palm—is exactly why Queer as Folklore has the potential to travel far beyond its current readership. You’ve written something that doesn’t just document; it delights. That’s rare in nonfiction, and it’s exactly what readers outside the expected audience are hungry for. So let me be direct about why I reached out, and what this could look like. The Situation as I See It
An AI generated email regarding promoting my book 'Queer As Folklore'. I have replied 'Fascinating. Do you have any good recipes for pancakes that use dinosaur eggs?'
A phonebox on a British high street. The advert on the side is for an AI company. It says 'STOP HIRING HUMANS' underneath the portrait of a stoic looking AI generated woman.
Anya Taylor-Joy standing in front of a movie premiere backdrop for Furiosa. She is wearing a dress covered in long gold arrows, they stick out around her head like a crown and around her hips. It looks like shes been shot at from every direction!
Me and a bunch of other folk on a water ride at the Plopsaland theme park in Belgium
Me in Gent Belgium, looking at the old castle!
The Untamed rollercoaster at Walibi theme park. I'm on it with my hands in the air in a bright yellow tshirt.
Me and four friends on a rollercoaster!