Maria Hayward is an English historian of costume and early modern Britain.

She is a professor of history at the University of Southampton and has published a number of works on the courts of Tudor and Stuart monarchs.^[1]

• 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).