No Man Shall Protect Us is a new documentary project to be co-produced by Suffrajitsu author Tony Wolf: (…) closely based on detailed accounts by witnesses, journalists, police constables and radical suffragettes. Narration, graphics and rare archival film will portray the dangerous work of the Bodyguard Society during this spectacular clash of wills and ideologies. …
“The Bold Suffragette” (1910)
This caricature of suffragette jujitsu trainer Edith Garrud, and accompanying poem titled “The Bold Suffragette”, first appeared in the Wednesday, 13 July 1910 edition of The Sketch.
Is Etta Candy, Wonder Woman’s friend in the upcoming movie, a former suffragette?
If you’ll forgive us some speculation, we’d lay even odds that Wonder Woman’s right-hand-gal Etta Candy (Lucy Davis) will be revealed as having an action-packed past as a radical suffragette. The character of Etta Candy was first introduced in 1942. A creation of Wonder Woman auteur William Moulton Marston, she was originally the confection-loving de facto leader …
Suffrajitsu-inspired fashion
Here’s an intriguing example of modern fashion directly inspired by the lore of the suffragette Amazons. According to the Beljacobs.com website: For centuries, sweeping skirts and tight corsets dominated British womenswear. The war in 1914 changed this. As men left to fight, around 1.5 million women took up work, on buses, in factories, as ambulance …
Play Suffragetto Online! – the 1909 Suffragettes vs. Police Board Game Meets the Digital Age
UPDATE: unfortunately, the tabletopzen.com site that used to host our free online version of Suffragetto, as described in this post, has not been operational for a long time. Therefore, the online version of the game is not currently available. We still have all the assets and do plan to re-launch the game online at some …
“Suffragetto”: a Suffragettes vs. Police Board Game Rediscovered After 100 Years
The Bodleian Library’s recent Playing With History exhibition featured, among many other interesting historical games, the only known playing set of Suffragetto; a board game based on the battles between radical suffragettes and police constables in London during the early 20th century. A free, online version of the game is also now available: see here for …
“The Rise of the Jujitsu-Suffragettes: Martial Arts in fin-de-siècle Great Britain”
Click here to contact the organisers and/or to book your place for this fascinating lecture on the real secret society of suffragette bodyguards who inspired the Suffrajitsu trilogy! When? 6.30 – 8.00 p.m., May 19th, 2016 Where? Asia House, Library, 63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP How much? Admission: £8 What’s it about? The lecture will explore …
“The World We Live In: Self-Defence” – some words of wisdom from suffragette martial arts trainer Edith Garrud
The following article was first published in Votes for Women, the newspaper of the Women’s Social and Political Union, during March of 1910. At that time, Edith Garrud (right, above) had been running her “Suffragettes Self Defence Club”, which was advertised in Votes for Women, since at least December of the previous year. The club …
“The Latest Drawing-Room Craze: Ladies Practicing the Japanese Art of Jujitsu”
During the very early 20th century, it became fashionable for London ladies to host “jujitsu parties” in their parlors, often hiring expert instructors such as Yukio Tani to offer basic instruction in the Japanese art of unarmed combat. Women responding to invitation cards with the word “wrestling” discreetly printed in one corner would arrive to …
An Exhibition of Ju-Jitsu at Aldershot: A Lady Throws a Man (The Graphic – Saturday, 08 April 1905)
Ju-jitsu or the Japanese scientific wrestling, now being taught by a Japanese professor, Professor Uyenishi, of Seibouhan, Japan, to the Aldershot Gymnastic Staff, formed, perhaps, the greatest attraction at the annual gathering of the public schools at Aldershot on Friday last. The wrestling display was given after the boxing championships at the Gymnasium, Queen’s Avenue. …