Roger Taylor, MVO born 1940, is a curator, photographic historian, and educator specialising in nineteenth century British photography and its social and cultural history.

In 1967 he secured a First Class Diploma in Creative Photography, and this led to his appointment as full-time lecturer at Sheffield School of Art where he remained until 1983.

[3] Encouraged by the urban historian Jim Dyos, Taylor took a sabbatical to attend the post-graduate course in Victorian Studies at Leicester University, in 1974 to 1976.

[5] As the series editor for World Microfilms Publications between 1978 and 1981, he was closely involved with the development of a number of early research resources in photographic history.

[8] During his tenure Taylor was instrumental in the acquisition of several important collections, including Tony Ray Jones;[9] Andor Kraszna-Krausz;[10] George Rodger, Photographic Advertising Ltd, and the Zoltan Glass Archive.

[20] As a personal project in 2009 Taylor was involved with establishing ‘The Gallery on the Green’ in a refurbished British Telecom telephone box in Settle, North Yorkshire.