adventuresinstabbing.blogspot.com
Adventures in stabbing: February 2015
http://adventuresinstabbing.blogspot.com/2015_02_01_archive.html
Some dude doing Martial Arts. Monday, 9 February 2015. Been a little while since my last post, nothing of interest happening lately. Something I've recently discovered is the absolute wealth of awesome free HEMA material online. The beauty of working from the old manuals is that many of them are now public domain and available on places like archive.org. There's also the rather amazing Wiktenauer. Project, which deserves all the love. Some books of interest:. Sunday, 1 February 2015. This is an interesti...
adventuresinstabbing.blogspot.com
Adventures in stabbing: Quick comic recommendation
http://adventuresinstabbing.blogspot.com/2015/02/quick-comic-recommendation.html
Some dude doing Martial Arts. Sunday, 1 February 2015. Has just been released. This is an interesting alt-history take on the militant arm of the Suffragette movement. It tells the story of the "Amazon" bodyguards who protected the Pankhursts from the police and enemies of the movement. While it is, obviously, a work of fiction with liberties being taken it is also firmly grounded in actual history, there were. Women who trained in Ju Jutsu. And carried Indian clubs. Get it on Comixology.
folderol.spookylibrarians.com
Folderol: December 2014
http://folderol.spookylibrarians.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
A librarian's weblog on pop culture, the arts, library science, and everything in between. Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Here are some otters enjoying holiday treats. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. From Cassandra: When it’s charisma vs. intelligence, charisma usually wins. See also: politics.). Swiped from Shelly: Did you know Björk released an album when she was eleven. Did you know she read the Nativity Story on Icelandic TV. Also at the age of eleven? I didn’t, until today! Monday, December 22, 2014.
bartitsu.org
Pop culture
http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/category/pop-culture
About the Bartitsu Society. The Origins of Bartitsu. The Bartitsu Club, 1899-1902. The Martial Arts of Bartitsu. Barton-Wright’s Later Years. How to set up a Bartitsu club. The Mysteries of the Embok Kwai (1900-1902). 8230; he was initiated into the Order of the Embok Kwai, the sole purpose of which is to teach, perpetuate and protect the secrets of jiu-jitsu. The Philadelphia Inquirer,. Barton-Wright insisted that he had instructed his agent in Japan to explain his expectations to the jiujitsuka before ...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT