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Category Archives: Canonical Bartitsu
The Earliest Known Collaboration Between E.W. Barton-Wright and Pierre Vigny: July 20, 1899
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 1st March 2016 These newly-discovered articles from the St. James’s Gazette offer our first glimpse at the original collaboration between Bartitsu founder Edward Barton-Wright and savate/stick fighting expert Pierre Vigny. The articles … Continue reading →
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“Ancient Duels and Modern Fighting”: an Account of the Elizabethan Fencing and Bartitsu Display at the London Bath Club (March 9, 1899)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 3rd March 2016 The following is a highly detailed account of the famous exhibition of both Elizabethan fencing and Bartitsu performed at the Bath Club during March of 1899. This event was … Continue reading →
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The Japanese Wrestlers (The Sketch, October 2, 1901)
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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Bartitsu Display at the 2016 Festival of Steam and Transport
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
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)
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”
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
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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A Detailed Report on Dr. Emelyne Godfrey’s Lecture for the Bagri Foundation
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 25th May 2016 The Bagri Foundation in London hosted this recent lecture by Dr. Emelyne Godfrey, author of Masculinity, Crime and Self Defence in Victorian Literature and its companion volume Femininity, Crime and Self Defence in Victorian Literature … Continue reading →
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Staging the Streets: The Theatricality of Science in Fin-de-Siecle Martial Arts
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 27th May 2016 By Peter Katz, Pacific Union College “A Fight Which Was None of Your Own Making”: Martial Arts and the Theater of ScienceAs they near the conclusion of their 1890 … Continue reading →
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