My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

muirin007:

willowclove:

Miss Sanderson and the womanly art of parasol self defence

This is everything I have ever wanted in a photo set ever.

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atompunk:

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/05/honor-blackmans-book-of-self-defense-1965/

Go to the link for more of Honor Blackman in glorious black and white action.

josephalopod:

Taken from my copy of “Jiu Jitsu and Other Methods of Self Defense” by Percy Longhurst, 1906

josephalopod:

Taken from my copy of “Jiu Jitsu and Other Methods of Self Defense” by Percy Longhurst, 1906

josephalopod:

Taken from my copy of “Jiu Jitsu and Other Methods of Self Defense” by Percy Longhurst, 1906

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josephalopod:

Taken from my copy of “Jiu Jitsu and Other Methods of Self Defense” by Percy Longhurst, 1906

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“Walk on the edge of the sidewalk and keep your stick ready for action.”
Check.

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tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1895, [Album of 67 Photographic Studies of Self-Defense Maneuvers]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographic Collection