Author Archives: BartitsuSociety

The Life’s Work of Percy Longhurst

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 5th March 2016 Percy William Longhurst (1874-1959) was a lifelong wrestling and antagonistics enthusiast, a prolific writer and a significant figure in the history of Bartitsu. Unfortunately, comparatively little is known of … Continue reading →

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Society Women Wrestlers: Ladies’ Craze for Japanese Ju-jitsu (Daily Mirror, April 4, 1904)

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 6th March 2016 Note – “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”, referred to below, is actually a character in an 1840s poem of the same title by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; the author of … Continue reading →

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The Japanese Wrestlers (The Sketch, October 2, 1901)

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 13th March 2016 This very ordinary short report on one of E.W. Barton-Wright’s 1901 jiujitsu promotions includes a distinctly unusual photograph. The man on the left is probably Yukio Tani who was, along … Continue reading →

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“The World We Live In: Self-Defence” – Some Words of Wisdom from Suffragette Martial Arts Trainer Edith Garrud

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 13th March 2016 The following article was first published in Votes for Women, the newspaper of the Women’s Social and Political Union, during March of 1910. At that time, Edith Garrud (right, above) … Continue reading →

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Registration Now Open for the 2nd International Pugilism Symposium

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 21st March 2016 When? Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22, 2016 Where? River Valley Complex in Leaf River, IL. Two days of intensive instruction in historic bare knuckle boxing with some of the … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Display at the 2016 Festival of Steam and Transport

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 1st April 2016 This recent event in Chatham, Kent, England included a dashing Bartitsu demonstration by members of the Metropolitan Bartitsu Club …

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Bespoke Umbrella Self-Defence at the Academie Duello

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 9th April 2016 Vancouver-based fashion and style company Style by Sarai hosted this Kingsman-themed event at the Academie Duello Western martial arts school, including an umbrella self-defence lesson with Bartitsu instructor David McCormick.

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“Fencing and Bartitsu at the Bath Club” (Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, March 18, 1899)

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 15th April 2016 On Thursday, the 9th inst., “ladies’ night”, an amusing and instructive evening was spent by the members and their friends, gathered in considerable numbers. The first part of the … Continue reading →

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“The Rise of the Jujitsu-Suffragettes: Martial Arts in fin-de-siècle Great Britain”

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 28th April 2016 Click here to contact the organisers and/or to book your place for this fascinating lecture on the real secret society of suffragette bodyguards who inspired the Suffrajitsu trilogy! When?  6.30 – 8.00 … Continue reading →

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The Bartitsu Club of Chicago at Forteza Fitness and Martial Arts

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 13th May 2016 An active and diverse Thursday night’s training at Chicago’s Forteza Western martial arts studio, featuring boxing, historical swordplay and Bartitsu unarmed combat with instructor Nathan Wisniewski.

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