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Category Archives: Edwardiana
“Wrestling Wizard Of Iceland Defies All Highwaymen” (New York Tribune, April 4, 1920)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 6th November 2010 Johannes Josefsson, Who Fights With His Feet in Ringling’s Circus, Craves Meeting With Bandits A certain degree of timidity is excusable in almost any person, owing to the increase … Continue reading
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“Father Frank’s Trick”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 26th September 2010 Text from “The French Scotland Yard: About the Paris Detective and his Work” by Alder Anderson and H. de Noussanne; The London Magazine, Volume 9, 1903. Has the reader … Continue reading
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“One Man, One Suffragette”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 11th September 2010 A 1907 Punch Magazine cartoon offers a satirical training suggestion to those London bobbies whose duties brought them into conflict with radical Suffragettes. The following year, under the tutelage … Continue reading
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“Jiu Jitsu Lessons For Youths” (1906)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 30th August 2010 From “The Foolish Almanack for the Year 1906 A.D.” By observing the following six rules any boy of twelve can easily protect himself from the attacks of a full-grown … Continue reading
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“The Umbrella as a Weapon of Defence” (1908)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 24th August 2010 From Popular Mechanics Magazine, Vol. 10 Issues 1-12: In one of the women’s fencing schools of Paris instruction in the art of attack and defense with foils has been discontinued … Continue reading
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William E. Steers and the Hilltop Dojo
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 14th August 2010 (With thanks to the late Richard Bowen as well as to John Bowen and Joe Svinth.) William E. Steers is one of the “mystery men” of the early British … Continue reading
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“The Secret Lock: A Splendid Yarn of Jiu-Jitsu” (1911)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 27th July 2010 GoogleBooks has made available this thrilling 12-page tale for red-blooded boys of all ages by Percy Longhurst (author of Jiu-Jitsu and Other Methods of Self Defence). Originally published in the August … Continue reading
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“Always Prepared” – the Boy Scouts and Self Defence
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 23rd July 2010 Although Bartitsu slightly pre-dates Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting movement, both were original and novel products of their founders’ Edwardian ideals. Scouting quickly captured the international imagination and went on to … Continue reading
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“The Sting of a Hornet”; Edwardian Hat-Pin Self Defence
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 14th July 2010 The popular trend towards enormous, flamboyant hats reached its zenith during the Edwardian era. Circa 1901, fashionable ladies’ headwear featured elaborate assemblies of taffeta, silk bows, coloured ostrich feathers, … Continue reading
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Finger Weapons of the Parisian Apaches
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 7th July 2010 (From the June 1911 issue of “Popular Mechanics” magazine) All the weapons used by the Apaches in Paris are unique, but none are more ingenious than these curious rings and the … Continue reading
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