Maria Hayward

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]

Hayward was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2004 and of the Royal Historical Society in 2021.^[2]

• 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 First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg (Bloomsbury, 2015; with Ulinka Rublack and Jenny Tiramani)
• 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).