Roger Bland

{{Short description|British curator and numismatist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Roger Bland | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|FSA}} | image = Roger being interviewed for TV (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Dr Roger Bland in 2010 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1955|4|3}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | citizenship = | residence = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater = King's College, London | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = Numismatics | sub_discipline = {{hlist|Coin hoards in Great Britain|Roman coinage}} | workplaces = {{plain list| * British Museum * McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge }} | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Roger Farrant Bland''' (born 3 April 1955) is a British curator and numismatist. At the British Museum, he served as Keeper of the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure from 2005 to 2013, Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Europe from 2012 to 2013, and Keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory from 2013 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Leicester and a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.<ref name="WW17">'BLAND, Dr Roger Farrant', ''Who's Who 2017'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U257974 accessed 18 July 2017]</ref>

==Career== In 1979, Bland joined the British Museum as a curator in the Department of Coins and Medals.<ref name="WW 2021" /> From 1994 to 2003, he was seconded to the Department of National Heritage (DNH) and then the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as British Museum advisor.<ref name="WW 2021" /><ref name="GOV">{{cite web |title=The Secretary of State has appointed Professor Roger Bland, OBE, and Dr Megan Gooch as Chair and Member of the Treasure Valuation Committee. |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-secretary-of-state-has-appointed-professor-roger-bland-obe-and-dr-megan-gooch-as-chair-and-trustee-of-the-treasure-valuation-committee |website=GOV.UK |publisher=Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |access-date=8 June 2021 |language=en |date=11 August 2020}}</ref> He was deputy keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals from 2001 to 2005, and then keeper (ie head) of the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure from 2005 to 2013. He was additionally Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Europe from 2012 to 2013, before serving as Keeper of the newly created Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory from 2013 until his retirement from the British Museum in 2015.<ref name="WW 2021" />

Bland was 34th President of the Royal Numismatic Society, from 2018 to 2023. <ref>{{ cite web |url=https://numismatics.org.uk/about-the-society/presidents-of-the-society/ |access-date=4 February 2024 |website=Royal Numismatic Society |title=Presidents of the Society}}</ref>

On 11 August 2020, it was announced that he would chair the Treasure Valuation Committee for a five year term from August 2020 until August 2025.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Secretary of State has appointed Professor Roger Bland, OBE, and Dr Megan Gooch as Chair and Member of the Treasure Valuation Committee. |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-secretary-of-state-has-appointed-professor-roger-bland-obe-and-dr-megan-gooch-as-chair-and-trustee-of-the-treasure-valuation-committee |website=GOV.UK |publisher=Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |access-date=23 September 2022 |language=en |date=11 August 2020}}</ref>

==Personal life== Bland is an Anglican Christian. He was a churchwarden and treasurer of St Margaret's, Cley from 2015 to 2020, and has been a lay reader in the Diocese of Norwich since 2018.<ref name="WW 2021">{{cite web |title=Bland, Dr Roger Farrant, (born 3 April 1955), Keeper, Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, British Museum, 2013–15 (Keeper: Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, 2005–13; Department of Prehistory and Europe, 2012–13) |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U257974 |website=Who's Who 2021 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=8 June 2021 |language=en |date=1 December 2020}}</ref>

==Honours== thumb|Bland identifying coins at his desk in 2003

* 6 May 1993: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).<ref>{{cite web|title=Fellows Directory: Bland|url=https://www.sal.org.uk/about-us/fellows-directory/?fs=Bland&page=1|website=Society of Antiquaries of London|access-date=18 July 2017}}</ref> * 2008: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to Heritage" during the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.<ref name="LG 14 June 2008">{{London Gazette |issue= 58729 |date= 14 June 2008 |pages= 8–9 |supp= y }}</ref> * 2014: Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Society's Medal|url=http://numismatics.org.uk/honours-and-awards/the-societys-medal/|website=The Royal Numismatic Society|access-date=18 July 2017}}</ref> * 2016: President's Medal by the British Academy "for his contribution to the protection, and academic and public understanding, of Britain’s cultural heritage".<ref>{{cite web|title=British Academy announces 2016 prizes and medal winners|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/british-academy-announces-2016-prize-and-medal-winners|website=The British Academy|access-date=18 July 2017}}</ref> * 2017: Archer M. Huntington Award<ref>{{Cite web |title=2017 Huntington Award to Roger Bland, "How Coin Finds are Changing the Face of Roman Britain." |url=https://numismatics.org/pocketchange/2017-huntington-award-to-roger-bland-how-coin-finds-are-changing-the-face-of-roman-britain/ |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=American Numismatic Society |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Selected works== * {{cite book |author1= Roger Bland |author2= Robert Carson |author-link2= Robert Carson (numismatist) |title= Coin hoards from Roman Britain: The Blackmoor hoard |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dm8vAAAAMAAJ |year= 1982 |publisher= British Museum}} * {{cite book |author1= Edward Besly |author2= Roger Bland |title= The Cunetio treasure: Roman coinage of the third century A.D. |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=NM8CAAAAMAAJ |year= 1983 |publisher= Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications |isbn= 978-0-7141-0857-5}} * {{cite book |author1= Roger Bland |author2= Catherine Johns |title= The Hoxne Treasure: An Illustrated Introduction |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=v48aAAAAYAAJ |year= 1993 |publisher= British Museum Press |isbn= 978-0-7141-2301-1}} * {{cite book |author1= Sam Moorhead |author2= Anna Booth |author3= Roger Bland |title= The Frome Hoard |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ebe7cQAACAAJ |year= 2010 |publisher= British Museum Press |isbn= 978-0-7141-2334-9}} * {{cite book |author1= Roger Bland |author2= Xavier Loriot |title= Roman and Early Byzantine Gold Coins Found in Britain and Ireland: With an Appendix of New Finds from Gaul |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KqjGYgEACAAJ |year= 2010 |publisher= Royal Numismatic Society |isbn= 978-0-901405-59-3}} * {{cite journal | last1 = Worrell | first1 = Sally | last2 = Jackson | first2 = Ralph | last3 = Mackay | first3 = Andrew | last4 = Bland | first4 = Roger | last5 = Pitts | first5 = Mike | author5-link = Mike Pitts (archaeologist) | last6 = Bradbury | first6 = Darren | date = January–February 2011 | title = The Crosby Garrett Roman Helmet | journal = British Archaeology | issue = 116 | url = http://www.archaeologyuk.org/ba/ba116/feat1.shtml | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140201192037/http://www.archaeologyuk.org/ba/ba116/feat1.shtml |archive-date = 1 February 2014 | name-list-style = amp }} {{free access}} * {{cite journal | last1 = Leahy | first1 = Kevin |author-link1=Kevin Leahy (archaeologist) | last2 = Bland | first2 = Roger | last3 = Hooke | first3 = Della | last4 = Jones | first4 = Alex | last5 = Okasha | first5 = Elisabeth | date = March 2011 | title = The Staffordshire (Ogley Hay) Hoard: Recovery of a Treasure | journal = Antiquity | volume = 85 | issue = 327 | pages = 202–220 | doi = 10.1017/S0003598X00067545 | url = https://www.academia.edu/22766316|url-access=registration | name-list-style = amp }} * {{cite book |author1= Kevin Leahy |author2= Roger Bland |title= The Staffordshire Hoard |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=2mHnngEACAAJ |date= 2014 |publisher= British Museum Press |isbn= 978-0-7141-2342-4}}

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* [https://britishmuseum.academia.edu/RogerBland/CurriculumVitae Curriculum Vitae]

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