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Category Archives: Reviews
“What Every Woman Ought to Know” Reviewed (Daily Mirror, March 29, 1911)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 24th April 2017
Posted in Edwardiana, Fiction, Humour, Jiujitsu, Reviews, Suffrajitsu
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The Gentlemanly Art of 19th Century Cane Fighting in … 1990s Russia!?
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 6th September 2017 The 1990 Russian sociopolitical satire Bakenbardy (“Side-whiskers”) is distinguished as the only feature film in which walking stick fighting serves as a crucial plot device. It’s also a pertinent warning as … Continue reading
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The Redoubtable Toupie Lowther
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 19th November 2017 Bartitsu has received an unusual shout-out in the new biography Toupie Lowther: Her Life, by English author Val Brown. Born to a wealthy, aristocratic family in 1874, May Lowther – … Continue reading
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“No Man Shall Protect Us” Suffragette Bodyguard Documentary Reviewed by Dr. Emelyne Godfrey
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 8th November 2018 Directed by Tony and Kathrynne Wolf, No Man Shall Protect Us: The Hidden History of the Suffragette Bodyguards (2018), written by Tony Wolf, offers a lucid and rousing yet sensitively balanced … Continue reading
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“The Dwarf of Blood” Reviews a Savate Exhibition at the Alhambra Theatre (1898)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on October 30th, 2018 Colonel Nathaniel Newnham-Davis, who wrote a popular column for the Sporting Life newspaper under the “Dwarf of Blood” pseudonym, was clearly a connoisseur of antagonistic novelties. Of all the English journalists … Continue reading
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Dr. Emelyne Godfrey Reviews “Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self Defense Movement”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 29th January 2018 Dr. Emelyne Godfrey has reviewed Wendy Rouse’s history of the women’s self-defence movement in the USA for the academic journal Martial Arts Studies. Dr. Godfrey’s review is available as a free, downloadable PDF via … Continue reading
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A Review of “Bartitsu: Historical Self-Defence with a Walking Stick”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 5th January 2019 Here follows a review of the new English-language edition of the instructional DVD Bartitsu: Historical Self-Defence with a Walking Stick According to Pierre Vigny, which was originally released with German-language … Continue reading
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Early Reviews for “Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 25th April 2011 Reviews are coming in for the new documentary (available here) and they are good … Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes reveals an exciting world of Victorian ruffians, … Continue reading
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“The tricks of other trades”; French boxing at the Alhambra (1898)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 21st January 2011 Beginning in early November of 1898, Georges D’armoric presented a series of displays of la boxe Français at London’s Alhambra music hall. The Alhambra exhibitions are particularly interesting insofar as they reveal … Continue reading
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