Maria Hayward | |
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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]
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]