Dr Heather Craddock
- Role
- Researcher
Collections Researcher
About
Heather is a Collections Researcher at The National Archives. Her specialisms include botanical history, environmental humanities, and the history of empire.
Research activity
Heather has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Her PhD research explored colonial histories of 19th-century Caribbean botanic gardens.
Heather has held teaching positions in English Literature and Environmental Humanities at Brunel University and the University of Roehampton. Her current research focuses on histories of pollution and colonial forestry. She co-curated an exhibition in 2023 at Kew Gardens, entitled Uprooted, about the history of forest conservation and deforestation.
Publications
- The Absence of the Ackee Tree: Jamaican Botanical Resistance and Kew’s Colonial Archive’, Plant Perspectives (Forthcoming Autumn 2025).
- ‘Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaican Plants: Gardens, Plantations, and Natural Threats in Dr No and The Man with the Golden Gun’, International Journal of James Bond Studies, 7(1), (2024).
- Heather Craddock, Carol Chang, and Alejandro Garay, ‘Opium Poppy: A Cursed Beauty’, Plant Humanities Lab (Dumbarton Oaks and Harvard University, 2024).