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Category Archives: Canonical Bartitsu
Bartitsu and Suffrajitsu in York, U.K.
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 29th October 2018 Instructor Lauren Ireland of the York School of Defence will be teaching a six-week introductory course in Bartitsu and suffrajitsu. The course will take place between 8.30-10.00 pm on Wednesday … Continue reading →
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Bartitsucon 2018 Classes and Instructors
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 20th October 2018 Participants in the upcoming Bartitsucon 2018 event will experience the full range of Bartitsu training, along with some related skills, as taught by no fewer than six instructors. In … Continue reading →
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The Bartitsu School of Arms: Beamish Museum, 2013
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 12th February 2013 Announcing the third international Bartitsu symposium, to take place at Beamish Museum near Newcastle, UK, between September 14th and 15th, 2013. Update: the Google Groups email list for the … Continue reading →
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“Fiendish Science”: a Pearson’s Magazine Editor Recalls His First Encounter with E.W. Barton-Wright
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 31st January 2018 When E.W. Barton-Wright returned to England in 1898, after a three-year sojourn in Japan, he lost little time in starting to promote the then-almost totally unknown martial art of … Continue reading →
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“Assault-at-Arms at the Bartitsu School” (1901)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 7th February 2017 An advertisement in the Sporting Times, promoting one of the assault-at-arms exhibitions staged at the Bartitsu Club in Shaftesbury Avenue.
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“The Bartitsu School of Arms and Physical Culture” (Monday, 25 November 1901)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 3rd February 2017 The following article, originally published in The Sporting Life, offers fresh details on the multi-style assault-at-arms staged at the London Bartitsu Club during late November of 1901. Several references may … Continue reading →
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Pierre Vigny’s London Self-Defence Exhibitions (June-July 1899)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 31st January 2017 Here follow two further reviews of the series of self-defence exhibitions organised by Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright during mid-1899, to benefit Pierre Vigny, who had then recently arrived in London. Vigny … Continue reading →
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Understanding Victorian Cultures of Violence: The Utility of Experimental Archaeology and Practical Hermeneutics
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 28th November 2016 Click the link below to read Liam Hannan’s thesis on Victorian “cultures of violence”, including an analysis of six canonical Bartitsu jiujitsu kata and stick-fighting set-plays: UNDERSTANDING VICTORIAN CULTURES OF … Continue reading →
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“… this really wonderful science”: a Bartitsu Display at the Guy’s Hospital Gymnasium (Guy’s Hospital Gazette, March 31, 1900)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 28th December 2016 Suddenly conceived, hurriedly organized, there was every excuse if the Assault-at-Arms in the Gymnasium on the 16th inst. had been a failure. When, therefore, we can describe it as … Continue reading →
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Dr. Herman Ten Kate Discusses the Shinden Fudo Ryu in 1905 (Part 1)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 2nd April 2018 Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright studied jiujitsu between the years 1895-98, while working as a chemical engineer for the E.H. Hunter Company in Kobe, Japan. Building on a background that … Continue reading →
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