Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful judo and taekwondo titles

This is the sixth in the series of blog posts dedicated to
London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful judo
and taekwondo titles, with a few more general martial arts titles thrown in! Congratulations
to Gemma Gibbons for winning a silver medal and Karina Bryant for winning bronze. Good luck to the GB taekwondo
competitors, who will start their campaign on Wednesday.

  • Famous judo throws
  • Judo Joe.
  • Ontario judoka : the official publication of the Ontario
    Judo Black Belt Association.
  • Judo Ron
  • Black belt international.
  • Fighting fit.
  • Masters of combat.
  • Train hard fight easy.
  • Way of the warrior : philosophy, traditions & practices
    of the world’s fighting arts.
  • Sobre taekwondo
  • The Way of taekwondo.
  • Martial arts. Best of grappling.
  • Martial arts illustrated : today’s magazine for the serious
    martial artist.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful
titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT
Olympics blog posts.

Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful rowing titles

This is the fifth in the series of blog posts dedicated to
London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful rowing
titles. A number of British competitors will be in action today and tomorrow,
including the men’s quadruple sculls team and women’s double sculls team. Good
luck to them all!

  • Open-water rowing.
  • The Oarsman.
  • The new rowing.
  • The Mayonnaise.
  • Blades : the official Henley Royal Regatta magazine …
  • The rowing almanack and oarsman’s companion.
  • The Rowing Calendar and Aquatic Register, containing reports
    of the principal matches of 1866.
  • The river and rowing museum at Henley : an occasional
    newsletter.
  • Aquatic monthly, and nautical review devoted to the
    interests of the yachting and rowing community.
  • Report of the Committee / Furnivall Sculling Club.
  • The Bump.
  • Friends of the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race :
    [newsletter].
  • Eights illustrated.
  • Spiers and Son’s chart of the Oxford University
    eight-oared-boat-races … .
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful
titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT
Olympics blog posts.

Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful archery and fencing titles

This is the fourth in the series of blog posts dedicated to
London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful
archery and fencing titles. It is nearing the end of the competition in both
disciplines.  Good luck to Larry Godfrey
in the archery and the Women’s and Men’s Team Foil in the fencing.

  • 2006-2011 World Outlook for Archery Equipment
  • The Alberta bowhunter and archer : an Alberta Bowhunters
    & Archers Association publication.
  • Archery action with outdoor connections
  • Engage : local news for the London 2012 shooting and
    Paralympic archery venue / Olympic Delivery
  • The glade : archery’s friendliest magazine.
  • The Longbow shooter’s digest.
  • Bow and arrow
  • The Fencing master.
  • The point.
  • The sword : the official organ of the Amateur Fencing
    Association & Ladies’ Amateur Fencing Union.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful
titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT
Olympics blog posts.

Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful swimming titles

This is the third in the series of blog posts dedicated to
London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful
swimming and synchronised swimming titles. Congratulations to Michael Phelps
who has just become the greatest Olympian ever, having won 19 medals. SUNCAT
also wishes all the British swimmers the best of luck in the pool.

  • Annual guide to synchronized swimming / Synchro Canada.
  • Chute. The magazine for swimming, sunbathing and open-air
    recreation. Vol. 1. no. 2. May/June, Aug/Oct. 1936.
  • Free swimming.
  • Hook, line and synchro : Synchro Canada’s official
    membership newsletter.
  • Knowing your swimming pool.
  • Notable swimming pools … and guide to equipment &
    supplies.
  • Official rules for competitive swimming.
  • Official … synchronized swimming handbook.
  • Swimming in Swansea Bay : a Swansea City fanzine.
  • Swimming Notes, Club Record, Turkish, Vapour, and Electric
    Bath and Bathing Guide. no. 88-98. Oct. 17-Dec. 26, 1885.
  • Swimming pool pleasure.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful
titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT
Olympics blog posts.

Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful equestrian titles

This is the second in our series of blog posts dedicated to
London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today we have some weird and wonderful equestrian
titles. Team GB has just won silver in the eventing. Our congratulations go to the team!
  • E Q : Equestrian quarterly : the magazine for discerning
    horse owners.
  • The Equestrian image.
  • The Equestrian shopper.
  • Hoofprint. Your equestrian monthly. no. 1, etc. [March]
    1969, etc.
  • Hoosier equestrian.
  • Equitation. A news sheet of horsemanship and dressage.
  • Just dressage.
  • The light horse.
  • Eventing : the specialist magazine for the sport of horse
    trials.
  • The Hippodrome: an illustrated English, American and Continental
    equestrian and vaudeville magazine. vol. 1. no. 2, etc.
  • Badminton life.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful
titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT
Olympics blog posts.

Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful cycling titles

This is the first of a series of blog posts dedicated to
London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful
cycling titles. Congratulations to Lizzie Armitstead for winning silver, and good
luck to the Team GB track cyclists.

  • Awheel : journal of the Solihull Cycling Club.
  • The bicycling times & tricycling record.
  • Birmingham cyclist : the newsletter of Push Bikes.
  • The Birmingham News Illustrated Local Cycling Runs.
  • Britain on two wheels
  • Chain mail.
  • The Cycling Budget.
  • Cycling Cuba.
  • Cycling’s grand “all-rounder” concert and prize
    distribution : to the trophy, medallion and team race winners in Cycling’s
    “best all-rounder” road race competition.
  • The fabulous world of cycling : season … / Eddy Merckx,
    Leon Michaux.
  • Cycling weakly : news, views and scuttlebutt from & for
    the Whirlow Wheelers.
  • Get cycling! : a practical guide to pedal-power.
  • The pinkun – The Fellowship of Cycling Old-Timers.
  • Pothole : the newsletter of the Greater Manchester Cycling
    Campaign.                
  • Share the road.
  • The Spokesman : journal of the Oldbury and District Cycling
    Club.
  • “Cycling” Year Book, 1906(-08) A vade mecum for every
    cyclist, with advice on every phase of cycling. Written and illustrated by the
    Staff of “Cycling.”.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful
titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympic Games
blog posts.

Weird and wonderful golf titles

Today is the first day of the Open Championship at Royal
Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lancashire. To mark this here are some weird
and wonderful golf titles.

  • 50 miles of golf round London
  • 101 best campsites for golf.
  • 2006-2011 World Outlook for Golf Bags, Handcarts for
    Carrying Golf Bags, Golf Club Shafts Sold Separately, Tees & Training
    Devices for Putting..
  • Bet golf …
  • The British golf greenkeeper
  • Bunkered.
  • Desert golf magaine.
  • Disc golfer : All the disc golf news that’s fit to fly.
  • Executive golf : for the members of Britain’s finest golf
    clubs.
  • Golf : a weekly record of “ye royal and auncient”
    game
  • Going for golf.
  • Golf addicts : a golf world calendar.
  • Golf albatros.
  • Golf course consumables.
  • Golf punk.
  • Golf Xtreme.
  • Golfdom.
  • The Pelz report : a scientific look at golf.
  • Strictly golfballs, the golf ball handbook.
  • Swing image : golf & lifestyle magazine.
  • Tee to green.
 For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful
titles take a look in SUNCAT.

Weird and Wonderful Tennis titles

Wimbledon 2012 is in full-swing! To mark the occasion we
thought we’d give you a few weird and wonderful titles with a tennis and
Wimbledon theme.

  • 2006-2011 World Outlook for Women’s & Girls’ Shorts
    & Tennis Skirts Made from Purchased Fabrics
  • Ace!
  • Annals of gaming; or Complete directions for whist,
    quadrille, piquet, billiards, hazard, tennis, loo,
    backgammon, &c. In which is contained, the method of playing and betting at
    those games … With cautions and directions, by which the public may be
    guarded against any impositions. The second edition.
  • Coach to coach : giving tennis
    coaches the advantage.
  • Dunlop lawn tennis almanac.
  • The Lawn-Tennis Annual, … being a record of matches,
    played during 1881, including the rules as approved by the All England
    Lawn-Tennis Club and the M.C.C., and general information … by L. S. F.
    Winslow.
  • The ’our gang’ tennis players.
  • Smart tennis times : the
    official magazine of the Winner’s Court.
  • Tennis & fashion.
  • Tennis cybertip4theday
  • TENNIS SHOE SURVEY.
  • Wild card : Britain’s best selling tennis
    fanzine.
  • Wimbledon … : the lawn tennis
    championships upon the lawns of the All England Club.
  • John McEnroe’s Wimbledon.
  • This is Wimbledon : facts and
    figures about the Championships, Wimbledon.
  • The wombles holiday special.
(Of course, we couldn’t mention Wimbledon
without the Wombles!)
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.

Happy St Patrick’s Day

SUNCAT wishes you Happy St Patrick’s Day for tomorrow (Saturday 17th March). In celebration we took a look in SUNCAT and found these titles.

  • St. Patrick’s Day. Containing some reminiscences of old Ireland. no. 3. 17 March 1878.
  • Old Ireland. Special no. St. Patrick’s Day 1875.
  • Chants for use in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the chapel of Trinity College, 1903 [with scores,

Remember also that SUNCAT contains serials records from Trinity College Dublin, as well as Queen’s University, Belfast. For more weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.

English Tourism Week

This week (10-18 March 2012) is English Tourism Week. There is a whole range of activities running throughout the week from free guided walks, music and theatre events, 2 for 1 offers and discounted accommodation. Take a look in SUNCAT for titles on English tourism and heritage. Examples include:

  • Guide to English Heritage properties open to the public
  • Heritage learning: the magazine for teachers from English Heritage
  • National Heritage museum of the year awards
  • The Heritage Brewery Museum chronicle
  • British steam railways: national timetable of scheduled services.
  • Wine tourism UK: the ultimate guide to the wine estates of England & Wales
  • Great family days out / the National Trust