Maria Hayward is an English historian of costume and early modern Britain. She is Professor of Early Modern History at the

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and has published a number of works on the courts of Tudor and

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monarchs.

Academic career

Hayward earned a bachelor's degree in history before completing a postgraduate diploma in textile conservation at

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's Textile Conservation Centre, housed in the

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. She then moved into work as a conservator before completing a PhD at the

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in 1997. In 1999 she began working at the Textile Conservation Centre, serving as its head of studies and research from 2000 to 2008, and in 2008 joined the

. She has served as the head of the history department at the university since 2022. Hayward served on the editorial board of the journal '' Studies in Conservation'' from 2004 to 2009 and as assistant editor of ''Costume'' from 1999 to 2008. She has also served as associate director and then director of the AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies. She has previously written for ''

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''.

Honours and awards

Hayward was elected a fellow of the

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in 2004 and of the

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in 2021.

Selected publications

* ''The Material World of a Restoration Queen Consort: The Privy Purse Accounts of Catherine of Branzaga'' (Lincoln Record Society, 2024) * ''A Revolution in Colour: Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c.1400-1800'' (

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, 2024; ed. with Giorgio Riello and Ulinka Rublack) * ''Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite'', (Yale University Press, 2020). * ''The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIII'', (London Record Society, 2012). * ''Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law Henry VIII's England'', (Ashgate, 2009). * ''Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII'' (Maney, 2007). * "Gift Giving at the Court of Henry VIII", ''The Antiquaries Journal'', 85 (2005), pp. 125–75. * ''The 1542 Inventory of Whitehall: the palace and its keeper'', vols 1 & 2 (Society of Antiquaries of London, 2004).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayward, Maria Living people Year of birth missing (living people) English women historians 21st-century English historians 21st-century English women writers Historians of the early modern period Tudor historians Fashion historians Alumni of the University of Southampton Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of the University of Southampton Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Historical Society History Today people