Maria Hayward

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I am a professor in Early Modern History at the University of Southampton, where I have worked since 2008. Prior to this I was a member of the Textile Conservation Centre, Winchester School of Art, 1999-2009. My main research interests focus on textiles and clothing in the 16th and 17th centuries but they stretch beyond these boundaries into the late medieval and the 18th century. Having started working on the court of Henry VIII, my interests have extended outwards to encompass all five Tudor monarchs. More recently I have been working on the later Stuart kings, from the birth of James VI and I to the death of James II and VII and their relationship with the Scottish male elite and how this was expressed through clothing, textiles and jewellery. My current projects include a biography of Catherine of Braganza and more work on clothing and dress in 16th and 17th century Scotland.

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Publications

Selected articles, some of which are available as open access

‘Dressing Charles II: The King’s Clothing Choices, 1660-1685’, Appearances, 6, (2015) https://journals.openedition.org/apparences/1320

‘In The Eye of the Beholder: ‘Seeing’ Textiles in the Early Modern Interior’, Textile History, 47.1, (2016), pp. 27-42. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00404969.2016.1144701

‘We should dress us fairly for out End’: The Significance of the Clothing Worn at Elite Executions in England in the Long Sixteenth-Century’, History, 101, (2016), pp. 220-45. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-229X.12229

‘a sutte of black which will always be of use to you’: Expressions of difference and similarity in the clothing choices of the Scottish male elite travelling in Europe, 1550-1750′, in C. Aust, D. Klein and T. Weller eds., Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe, European History Yearbook, 20, (2019), pp. 33-51.

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/23555/1006591.pdf?sequence=1

Recent book chapters include

‘Virtue and vice: Clothing and kingship at the court of Charles I and Charles II (1625-85)’, in C. Brachmann ed., Arrayed in Splendour: Art, Fashion and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, (Belgium: Brepols, 2019).

‘The best of queens, the most obedient wife’: Fashioning a place for Catherine of Braganza as consort to Charles II’, in Erin Griffey ed., Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning Women, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019)

‘Outlandish superfluities: Luxury and Clothing in Scottish and English Sumptuary Law, 1337-1701’, in Giorgio Riello and Ulinka Rublack eds., The Right to Dress, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Books

The 1542 Inventory of Whitehall: The Palace and its Keeper, 2 volumes, (London: Illuminata for The Society of Antiquaries, 2004)

Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII, (Leeds: Maney, 2007)

Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law in Henry VIII’s England, (Farnham: Ashgate 2009)

Ulinka Rublack and Maria Hayward, The First Book of Fashion: The Books of Clothes of Matthaus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg, (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)

Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020)

Edited volumes

Frances Lenard and Maria Hayward eds., Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice, (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann for Elsevier, 2006)

Maria Hayward and Elizabeth Kramer eds., Textiles and Text: Re-Establishing the Links between Archival and Object-based Research, post-prints of the Third AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies Conference, 2006, (London: Archetype, 2007)

Maria Hayward ed., The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIII, (Woodbridge: London Record Society/The Boydell Press, 2012)

Maria Hayward and Philip Ward eds., The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Volume 2: Textiles and Dress, (Harvey Miller for The Society of Antiquaries of London, 2012)

Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth and Maria Hayward eds., The Encyclopedia of Textiles and Dress in the British Isles, 450-1450, (Leiden: Brill, 2012)

Maria Hayward and Philip Ward eds., The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Volume 3: Arms and Armour, (Harvey Miller for The Society of Antiquaries of London, forthcoming)

Professor Of Early Modern History

University Of Southampton