Sarah Bennett, Freelance Journalist Profile

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Eastbourne health hub's nutrition club unveils a fresh approach to health and wellness

2 weeks ago | sussexexpress.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowEastbourne Health Hub has been helping people achieve their health and wellness goals for over 10 years and now proudly announces the opening of its Daily Breakfast Nutrition Club on May 12th, 2025, a revolutionary wellness initiative aimed at helping individuals build healthy habits, slim down, find more energy, and feel more confident, all while joining a supportive local community.
Santa Ana College inspires the next generation - Editor and Publisher

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Sarah Bennett |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Tuesday, February 25, 2025 7:15 am We’re a community college and a predominantly Hispanic-serving institution. ... A lot of [students] are trying to stay local, and they see gaps in news and information in their own communities. So, we talk a lot about how they can fill those gaps and then how to get paid to fill them.” The best way to learn journalism is by doing journalism. That’s the educational philosophy at Santa Ana College in Santa Ana, California. The college offers three...
James Fleming | The Book Collector

Nov 29, 2024 | thebookcollector.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

It is with great sadness that we have to let you know that our much-loved editor, James Fleming, passed away last week after a sudden illness. James took on The Book Collector as proprietor in 2016 and later editor in 2018, returning the publication to the Fleming fold. He loved his work and the journal with a passion and felt very much at home in the world of book collecting, making many friends around the world. We are sure he will be sorely missed by all.
Treasures | The Book Collector

Oct 11, 2024 | thebookcollector.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

Silke Lohmann speaks with Leo Cadogan about their latest catalogue, Treasures. 1. Your latest catalogue, beautifully designed by the way, covers ten treasures from 1480 to 1700. What's your personal favourite? I probably have two favourites at the moment. One is a 16th-century lawbook that an owner has assembled by putting parts of different books together. It raises interesting questions about the books it's made from and how the booksellers sold them. It has woodcuts too.
A Thing of Beauty

Sep 25, 2024 | thebookcollector.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

Peter Harrington's specialists Sammy Jay and Dr Philip W. Errington have chosen Keats's words as the title for their latest catalogue A Thing of Beauty – celebrating the art and craft of beautiful book production and exceptional private press works. The catalogue includes several Kelmscott Press books, which are undoubtedly a high point in the field of beautiful books, among them a Chaucer bound in an art-nouveau style.
UNIQUE Exhibition

Jul 5, 2024 | thebookcollector.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

The society of Designer Bookbinders in holding an exhibition of recent works by its members at The Benjamin Spademan Gallery in St James's. 'UNIQUE' will run from 5th to 13th July 2024. We spoke to Stuart Brockman of James and Stuart Brockman Ltd. Tell us a little bit about how the society started and share some of the highlights from the last fifty years. The society began in 1951 as a small group of like-minded binders who wished to exhibit their work.
Continental Books

Jun 20, 2024 | thebookcollector.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

Quaritch has recently released catalogue 1456, which is all about continental books and represents a real team effort. We speak to Alex Day, who joined Q in 2003 with an MPhil in Medieval History from Cambridge. He specialises in manuscripts from that period as well as early printed books and general travel books. This catalogue offers an exceptional range of continental books, from countries as varied as Sweden and Bohemia. How did you go about choosing them for the catalogue?
Bill Fletcher | The Book Collector

May 9, 2024 | thebookcollector.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

‘I sold my first book in 1914 when I was eight years old. After school, I went to work for my father in Porchester Road. It never occurred to me to do anything else. I was born into the book trade and, in those days, you just got on with it. My father marked the books and I sold them, learning as I went along. If you want to shoe a horse, you watch a good man doing it. But I was born with a nose.
The Cecil Beaton List

Apr 22, 2024 | thebookcollector.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

We like the sound of the Cecil Beaton catalogue Beaux Books are launching at Firsts London this year and have talked to Clare Trimming about it. Please tell us where the collection is coming from, is it a private collection or have you collected it over the years? Is it being sold as a whole or individually? The collection has been built up over a number of years. We made it our mission to locate first editions of every book written by Cecil Beaton.
Bird Illustrations Catalogue

Feb 29, 2024 | thebookcollector.co.uk | Sarah Bennett

This week Silke Lohmann spoke with Bernard Shapero of Shapero Rare Books, about the upcoming catalogue of approximately 50 illustrated books on birds, specifically parrots, including highlights such as Edward Lear's 'Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots' published in 1832 with an asking price of £135,000. Bernard, you started your career in 1979 and you have specialised in Natural History books for years, so is this catalogue one of the highlights of your career?