Professor Maria Hayward

Research interests

• Early modern textiles and clothing especially in a court context.
• Early modern court culture, including the Tudors and the later Stuarts.
• Early modern Scotland, in particular looking at the engagement of the male elite with material culture. 
• Early modern women, especially of the Restoration period, in relation to food, shopping, gardening and gift-giving. 
• 18th century women, with an emphasis on clothing, firendship and the body.