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For more on the embrace of jiu-jitsu by British women in the early 1900s, check out @johnreppion.bsky.social's piece on the 'Ju-jutsuffragettes'. www.dailygrail.com/2017/05/bari...

dailygrail.comBaritsu, Bartitsu, and the Ju-JutsuffragettesIn December 1893 a crime was committed which sent shock-waves around the world. Readers of the monthly publication Strand Magazine were the first to learn of the offence, but news spread fast, and soon the tragic facts of the case were common knowledge: Sherlock Holmes was dead. After six years of recording his exploits, Arthur Conan Doyle had grown tired of the Great Detective and decided the only way he could be truly free of the character was to kill […]