amymackintosh Archives - Make Heritage Fun!

Best of 2016, Blog, Capturing Culture, Food Heritage, Heritage, Intangible Heritage

The Migrant’s plate in Australia

August 30, 2017October 24, 2017

For most Australians, the main way we experience and interact with different cultures is through food. Recipes and culinary traditions have traveled with migrants from …

Best of 2016, Conservation, Intangible Heritage, Underwater

Underwater caves: art, fire and bones beneath the sea

December 18, 2016December 27, 2016

At the end of the last ice age, approximately 12,000 years ago, the sea level to rose up to 120 metres and submerged a great …

Heritage, Stories, Underwater

Shipwreck and Massacre: The Bloody Battle of Batavia

December 15, 2016December 15, 2016

The wreck of the Batavia was discovered over three hundred years after it sank in the Morning Reef. Through examining different items found at the …

Conservation, Heritage, Underwater

The Missing Submarine: discovery of the M24

November 14, 2016November 14, 2016

In November 2006, a group of weekend divers made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Bungan Head, Sydney. Fifty-four metres underwater, half buried in …

Best From Our Students, Best of 2016, Blog, Conservation, Heritage, Photo Stories, Traditions

More than Lederhosen? Traditional costumes of Germany

October 28, 2016May 22, 2018

If I were to ask you to describe the national costume of Germany, no doubt most responses would talk about lederhosen, and the barmaids’ dresses …

Community, Heritage, Photo Stories

Slippery business: The Eel farms of Budj Bim

October 25, 2016October 10, 2017

Photo credit: To the west of Victoria, south-easat Australia, unknown to most, is the oldest aquaculture system in the world. At over 6,600 years old, …

Arts and Crafts, Best of 2016, Discover, Heritage, Traditions

The Extraordinary Crafts of Indigenous Australia

October 17, 2016December 19, 2016

Prior to European settlement, Aboriginal people inhabited every area of Australia, and Torres Strait Islanders lived in the islands between Australia and Papua New Guinea. …