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Category Archives: Canonical Bartitsu
The Original Bartitsu Club
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 10th September 2015 “… a huge subterranean hall, all glittering, white-tiled walls, and electric light, with ‘champions’ prowling around it like tigers …” – Mary Nugent (January 1901) There are now approximately … Continue reading →
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“Carry a large stick” (1901)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 29th September 2013 To the Editor of the Evening TelegraphDublin, February 10, 1901 Dear Mr. Editor – I see by your issue of Saturday an extract from the February number of “Pearson’s” … Continue reading →
“Japanese Wrestling” (27 October, 1898)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 14th December 2012 A report from the Morning Post newspaper on one of E.W. Barton-Wright’s early jiujitsu demonstrations in London. Mr. Barton-Wright’s demonstration of Japanese wrestling at the St. James’s Hall last … Continue reading →
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Bartitsu on BBC3 Radio’s “A Time Traveller’s Dictionary”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 22nd March 2019 Dr. Naomi Paxton offers a brief but highly accurate summary of Bartitsu in this new edition of BBC3’s Time Travellers podcast series. Dr. Paxton also has a longstanding interest in suffrajitsu and has previously offered … Continue reading →
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“Japanese ‘Bartitsu’” (1901)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 7th March 2019 The author of this short critical article, first published in the Sheffield Evening Telegraph of 28 August 1901, jumps to several mistaken conclusions about Bartitsu, jiujitsu and Japanese wrestling as a general … Continue reading →
Bartitsu Club Fencing Master – Captain Alfred Hutton (1903)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 28th February 2019 A newly-discovered photograph of Captain Alfred Hutton, who is now famed as a pioneer of historical European martial arts reconstruction and of the establishment of competitive fencing as an English … Continue reading →
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“Victory of the Foreigner”: Pierre Vigny vs. Professor Perkins (May, 1899)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 2nd September 2017 This newly-discovered article from the Sporting Life of 24 May, 1899 records one of Pierre Vigny’s first public forays into the London antagonistics scene. Professor Perkins (England) vs. Professor Vigny (Switzerland) … Continue reading →
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Who Was the Bartitsu Club’s Mysterious “Instructor Hubert”?
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 1st September 2017 The roster of instructors at E.W. Barton-Wright’s Bartitsu School of Arms included Pierre Vigny (savate and walking stick defence), Yukio Tani and Sadakazu Uyenishi (jiujitsu), Armand Cherpillod (wrestling and … Continue reading →
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“Clever and Adroit”: More on the 1902 Nottingham Bartitsu Exhibitions
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 5th April 2017 The following article from the Tuesday, 25 March 1902 edition of the Nottingham Journal is the most detailed report yet discovered on the short series of Bartitsu exhibitions held in … Continue reading →
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“The Gentle Art of Self Defence: A Strange and Mysterious Set of Manoeuvres Calculated to Upset the Mental Balance of Your Adversary” (1899)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on June 3rd, 2017 The anonymous author of this March 15, 1899 To-Day Magazine satire wittily skewers E.W Barton-Wright’s “New Art of Self Defence” series for Pearson’s Magazine. ONE of the monthly magazines which … Continue reading →
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