Category Archives: Exhibitions

Elizabethan Sword-Play and Bartitsu at the Bath Club (1899)

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 29th July 2013 A tongue-in-cheek review of the famous Bath Club exhibition of March 1899, from “The Truth” newspaper: Very interesting indeed was the display of Elizabethan sword-play at the Bath Club last … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu and Edwardian Antagonistics at the Sherlock Seattle Convention

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 17th October 2013 Members of BWAHAHAHA (the Barton-Wright/Alfred Hutton Alliance for Historically Accurate Hoplology and Antagonistics) demonstrate Bartitsu, cutlass fencing, pugilism and the use of the long stick for the audience at the recent Sherlock … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Demo on “Sunday Brunch” (UK)

Posted on December 25, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 3rd November 2013

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Bartitsu Lecture for the Criterion Bar Association

Posted on December 25, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 5th November 2013 On the evening of Saturday, Nov. 2nd, Bartitsu instructor Tony Wolf (right, above) delivered an after-dinner lecture on the history and revival of Bartitsu for the Criterion Bar Association, a coeducational scion … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Display at the Duchamp Men’s Fashion Show

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 17th January 2014 Fashionistas were recently treated to an exhibition of stylish Bartitsu stick fighting during an innovative presentation by the Duchamp London men’s clothing company. Some brief excerpts appear in this video:

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“Ladies Night at the Bath Club”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 9th March 2014 A short account and illustration of the famous Bartitsu and historical fencing exhibition at the London Bath Club, courtesy of the The Sussex Agricultural Express, 17 March 1899: One of … Continue reading →

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The Great Anglo-Japanese Tournament (Nottingham, 1902)

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 9th March 2014 An advertisement for the Great Anglo-Japanese Tournament in Nottingham, from the Nottingham Evening Post, 21 March 1902:

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Bartitsu at Festival No. 6

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 10th September 2015 Bartitsu instructor James Garvey (lower right, above) represented E.W. Barton-Wright’s “New Art of Self Defence” in the central piazza at Festival No. 6 (2015). This boutique music and arts festival … Continue reading →

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Glima vs. Three Footpads

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 21st July 2014 Icelandic wrestler and showman Johannes Josephsson, who exhibited the art of glima wrestling in North American and European music halls during the early 20th century, demonstrates self-defence against not one, … Continue reading →

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Barton-Wright Demonstrates Jiujitsu (October 1898)

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 23rd August 2014 A Morning Post report on one of Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright’s earliest jiujitsu demonstrations, which took place at St. James’s Hall in London on October 26, 1898. The journalist … Continue reading →

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