About

I am an Independent Researcher and Historian, with a First Class Honours degree in Egyptology and a Masters in Death, Religion & Culture. I have over twenty years of experience in researching a wide range of subjects for a variety of clients, including those within academia, museums, media, and publishing.

I lecture widely on a variety of folklore, history and Egyptology topics and have many research interests, some of which include:

• Folklore, especially surrounding the country of Wales 
• The history of herbalists, alternative healers, folk healing and magical healing in Wales
• Oystermouth Cemetery, Mumbles
• Gower and Swansea History
• The history of early Egyptian antiquity collections 
• Ancient Egyptian funerary customs.
• Welsh death and funerary customs.

For press, radio or television enquiries, please contact me on rogersbevj@yahoo.co.uk.

C.V. available on request.

Member of:
The Folklore Society
Folklore Museums Network
The Gower Society (Membership Secretary)
Historical Association, Swansea (Committee Member)

Publications:

The Taste of Death: the relationship between death and food (to be published in 2024) in Death and the Senses, ed. Chapter. Winchester University.

The Swansea Devil (published in Oct 2022). Minerva. Published by the Royal Institution of South Wales.

The Mumbles “Figure Eight,” Autumn 2022. Mumbles Times

The Shell Grottos of Mumbles, Jun/July 2022, Mumbles Times

Thomas Bowdler, February/March 2022, Mumbles Times

The Mumbles Illuminations, December 2021, Mumbles Times

Morfydd Owen, October/November 2021, Mumbles Times

Mumbles: the healthiest resort in the kingdom, September 2021, Mumbles Times

Mari Lwyd: a ‘skull in the ribbons of a bride’, November/December 2020, Mumbles Times

L.S. Howells & Rogers, B.J. (2016) Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875). Pamphlet designed and written for Llandignat Church, Llandovery.

‘Peering beneath the Layers or The Day we Took ‘Rover’ for a walk’, guest writer for the Egypt Centre Blog,
Swansea published 10 June 2014.  Available from: http://egyptcentre.blogspot.com

‘Unveiling Mummies’, guest writer for the Egypt Centre Blog, Swansea published 9 May 2013. Available from: http://egyptcentre.blogspot.com

Unwrapping the past: Egyptian Mummies on Show’ in Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship 1840-1910.  Edited by J Kember, J Plunkett and J A Sullivan (2011).  London: Pickering and Chatto.

‘The Reverend William MacGregor: an early industrialist collector’ in Antiquity, Volume 084 Issue 325 September 2010.  
 
Film:    

Stumbles through Mumbles: Oystermouth Cemetery

Consultant researcher for a film created by The Lighthouse Theatre Company Ltd and Mumbles Community Council.

Daniel James (Gwyrosydd)

Researcher and Consultant on the 2012 animated short film about the life and work of the Welsh bard Daniel James, who wrote the lyrics to Calon Lan.

Radio:

Researcher and Assistant Producer for Telesgop Media - Swansea, BBC Radio Wales commission, Calon Lan, to be broadcast in 2021.

Production Assistant for Telesgop Media, Swansea - Radio 2 commission, First Cast Cats, Broadcast 29 January 2019.

Review of the National Waterfront Museum for BBC Radio Wales, broadcast August 2011.


Exhibitions:

Researcher and Exhibition Co-Ordinator at Pisgah Chapel, Gower, 200 Year Celebration

Researcher for exhibition at Swansea Museum in 2021, Calon Lan.

Consultant for Museufy’s Exhibition Secrets of Tamworth’s Egyptian Treasures (2015).

Consultant for Connected Communities: Calon Lan and Daniel James (Waterfront Museum and Swansea University 2013).

Curator for World War 2: Newton Remembers (Mumbles 2015).