Renaissance Swordplay, Victorian-style
n late Victorian England, swordsmanship experienced a unique revival, even as the sword was being rendered useless on the battlefield. The precise origins are murky, but likely began with the Romantic...
View ArticleGeorges Dubois, the Forgotten Master of Ancient Fencing (L’Escrime Ancienne)
lthough the pioneering work of Alfred Hutton and Egerton Castle is well-known to students of Historical European Martial Arts, far-fewer are aware of the expansive, and longer-lasting, efforts of their...
View ArticleCaptain Hutton writes about his friends at the Bartitsu Club
In his ongoing effort to open the parlor room door to the vigorous martial arts (aka “antagonistics”) world of late Victorian London, our friend and author Tony Wolf has recently blogged offering not a...
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