We Love our Friends and Volunteers Day 2019
If you’re looking for an opportunity to meet new people and gain some new skills Gilbert White & The Oates Collections has the perfect event for you. On the 14th February the Selborne museum hosts its annual We Love Our Friends and Volunteers Day; an open day held at the
Tips for February!
Tips for February! Valentine’s day! It’s Valentine’s Day soon, so why not treat a loved one to a day out? An admission ticket could get you a trip to the museum and a romantic walk around the gardens all year round, plus a lunch for two at White’s Café! Volunteer
Dark Skies Festival
Gilbert White & The Oates Collections is taking part in the Dark Skies Festival led by South Downs National Park this February. Gilbert White was a keen astronomer ‘The planet Venus is just become an evening star: but being now in the descending signs; that is, the end of Virgo,
Looking forward to 2019
2019 comes between two big years in Gilbert White & The Oates Collections history… 2018 the year of the major renovation and 2020 the 300th anniversary of Gilbert White’s birth. Whilst 2019 will feature a lot of us making the most of the new space that we have and preparing
Dreaming of a Gilbert White Christmas.
It’s Christmas time at Gilbert White’s House and we are gearing up for a very festive December! Here’s what we have coming up! 1. Mulled Wine Weekend If you haven’t been to one of our Mulled Wine Weekends, where have you been! A free weekend of Christmas entertainment, Christmas traditions
Thanks to You
We want to say #ThanksToYou December fun thanks to The National Lottery #ThanksToYou From 4-9 December 2018, we are opening our doors for free to National Lottery players. Gilbert White & The Oates Collections will be throwing open its doors for free to National Lottery players during the week of
Frank Oates in Africa
On Monday 9th April to celebrate the opening of our new Frank Oates Gallery; historians Dr John McAleer and Dr Chris Prior from the University of Southampton will be giving an exciting talk on the Victorian Explorer and the environment he travelled in. Frank Oates’s travels in nineteenth-century Southern Africa made
Gilbert White & Shakespeare
This blog was written in 2017. Next week Gilbert White’s garden will play host to chapter house theatre company’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. White doesn’t often refer to plays or fiction in his writings, but was well read, in letter three of The Natural History of Selborne
Gilbert White & The French Revolution
Gilbert White lived through important political times and one of the biggest world events towards the end of his life was the French Revolution, of which events although seem far removed from Selborne were to catapult Britain into a long war with France. On Saturday 15th we are celebrating with
Jane Austen and Gilbert White
The quiet village of Selborne home to Gilbert White seems quite removed from the famous village of Chawton during the time of Jane Austen, however the lives of these two literary figures were not so disconnected, their lives overlapped by eighteen years and their homes were only four miles from