Maria Hayward
Maria Hayward | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Professor of Early Modern History |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Winchester School of Art London School of Economics |
| Thesis | The Possessions of Henry VIII: A Study of Inventories (1997) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Winchester School of Art University of Southampton |
Maria Hayward FRHistS FSA is an English historian of costume and early modern Britain.
She is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton and has published a number of works on the courts of Tudor and Stuart monarchs.[1]
Academic career
[edit]Hayward earned a bachelor's degree in history before completing a postgraduate diploma in textile conservation at Hampton Court Palace's Textile Conservation Centre, housed in the Winchester School of Art. She then moved into work as a conservator before completing a PhD at the London School of Economics in 1997.[2] 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 University of Southampton.[3] She has served as the head of the history department at the university since 2022.[2]
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.[4] She has also served as associate director and then director of the AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies.[5] She has previously written for History Today.[6]
Honours and awards
[edit]Hayward was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2004 and of the Royal Historical Society in 2021.[2]
Selected publications
[edit]- 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 (Bloomsbury, 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. doi:10.1017/S0003581500074382
- The 1542 Inventory of Whitehall: the palace and its keeper, vols 1 & 2 (Society of Antiquaries of London, 2004).
References
[edit]- ^ Professor Maria Hayward, University of Southampton
- ^ a b c "Professor Maria Hayward". University of Southampton. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
- ^ "Maria Hayward". Humanities Commons. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
- ^ "Professor Maria Hayward". Textile Conservation Centre. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
- ^ "Hayward, Maria". Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
- ^ "Maria Hayward". History Today. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
