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Category Archives: Canonical Bartitsu
Bartitsu Exhibitions in Oxford (February-March 1902)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 30th March 2017 During the early months of 1902, E.W. Barton-Wright and the Bartitsu Club instructors undertook a series of touring exhibitions to venues including Cambridge University and the Mechanics Institute Hall in … Continue reading →
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“Hot, Towzled, and Flabbergasted” (1901)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 22nd April 2017 An amusing account of a Bartitsu challenge contest from the Sporting Times of 7 September, 1901. Noting as usual that the term “Jap” was used as a non-pejorative abbreviation in Edwardian English. … Continue reading →
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Bartitsu Returns to the Royal Armouries (Leeds)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 26th April 2017 Sherlock, Stock and Barrel is a Sherlock Holmes-themed event taking place at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds, England between April 29-May 1. Notably, the event marks the return of Bartitsu … Continue reading →
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Sherlock Holmes’ Bartitsu at the Royal Armouries Museum
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 1st May 2017 Scenes from the Sherlock, Stock and Barrel festival taking place at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, UK. This event marks the return of Bartitsu demonstrations to the Museum, which was … Continue reading →
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Dr. Emelyne Godfrey’s Presentation on Bartitsu and the Jiujitsu Suffragettes
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 6th May 2017 Here’s a full video record of Dr. Emelyne Godfrey’s recent presentation on Bartitsu and suffragette jiujitsu, delivered for the Martial Arts Studies Research Network. The presentation is followed by a … Continue reading →
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Bartitsu with Allen Reed at “Cogs and Corsets” in Bloomington, IL
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 11th May 2017 Come learn the martial art made famous by Sherlock Holmes when he fought with his nemesis Prof. Moriarty at the top of Reichenbach Falls. Prof. Reed spent many years tracking … Continue reading →
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“Bartitsu at the Tivoli Theatre” (1901)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 12th May 2017 From the Morning Post of 23 August, 1901: Yesterday afternoon Mr. Barton-Wright gave a private exhibition of Bartitsu, his system of self-defence, which, though mainly founded on Japanese methods, is not exclusively … Continue reading →
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Bartitsu Exhibition at Shorncliffe Army Camp (1902)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 17th May 2017 During early 1902, the instructors of the Bartitsu School of Arms and Physical Culture hit the road for a series of touring martial arts exhibitions in Oxford, Cambridge and Nottingham. This … Continue reading →
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“Giving In to Get Your Way”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 27th May 2017 The “sacrifice throw” in which a wrestler drops to the ground, using his own falling weight to throw his opponent, was almost unknown in Europe during the late 19th century. … Continue reading →
“… he goes down all the same”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 17th June 2017 A parallel is drawn between the no-holds-barred ethos of Bartitsu and the military tactics of the Boer War in this article from the St James’s Gazette of 18 January, 1900. Our army leaders … Continue reading →