Gilbert White’s Field Studies Centre is the Education Department of Gilbert White’s House and The Oates Collection. Our mission is to inspire journeys of discovery in the natural world for all ages and abilities and throughout the seasons.
The Wakes, High Street,
Selborne
Hampshire GU34 3JH
Gilbert White’s Field Studies Centre

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Venue Events
- Deck the Halls
- Winter Explorer Day
- White’s Festive Feast
- White’s Christmas Craft Fair
- The Holly and The Ivy Watercolour Workshop
- *Sold Out* Festive Wreath Making Workshop
- White’s Christmas Concert
- Grow Great Veg with Pippa Greenwood
- Make and Take Autumn Craft
- Autumn Nature Explorer Day
- *SOLD OUT* Summer in Gilbert’s Garden: Watercolour Workshop
- Matt Collins: Inspired by Wild Landscapes
- *Sold Out* By Popular Demand! Weave a Willow Foraging Basket
- Talk: The Colour of Silence with Clare Newton
- Jazz on the Mead: Sidewinder Big Band
- Wild Escape Drop-in and Draw! Connecting with Nature through Art
- Dazzling Dragonflies: Watercolour Workshop
- Discovering the Moths of Selborne
- SOLD OUT: Jazz on the Mead: Sidewinder Big Band
- Nature Connection Loan Box Launch
- Painting With Sunlight: Cyanotype Workshop
- Looking Closely: Observed Drawing Workshop
- Nature Explorer Days
- Online Talk with Tristan Gooley: How to Read a Tree
- SOLD OUT: Weave A Willow Foraging Basket
- *Sold Out* A Wildflower Summer: Watercolour Workshop
- Drop-in and Draw! Connecting with Nature through Art
- Pond Dipping
- Coronation Party
- Literary Evening: Nature Writing, Poetry Book Launch & Readings
- Fossil Day
- Nature’s Patterns: Ceramic Mug Workshop
- SOLD OUT: Nature Connection for Your Class
- Apple Blossom Time: Watercolour Workshop
- Still Watching Narrowly? Lecture: ‘Consider the birds of the air…’
- Still Watching Narrowly? Lecture: Gilbert White and the Rise of the Green Movement and Deep Ecology
- Still Watching Narrowly? Lecture: Re-encountering the Earth
- SOLD OUT: Willow Platter and Bowl Workshop
- We love our Volunteers Day!
- Albatross, Penguin & Goldfinch – Learn To Draw A Bird!
- Africa-inspired Bead craft session. Make and Take.
- Antarctic Talks 2023: Illustrating the Terra Nova expedition
- Antarctic Talks 2023: Searching for Clues to the Future in Antarctica’s Past
- Antarctic Talks 2023: The Quest Chronicle – The Story of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition
- SOLD OUT: Evening Talk: The Night Sky Today
- Christmas Concert
- Needle Felt a Christmas Robin
- Willow Birdfeeder Workshop
- White’s Eco Christmas Fair
- SOLD OUT: Festive Wreath Making Workshop
- Lecture: Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White & The Artists
- Fantastical Creatures
- Echoes From The Earth
- Autumnal Tales
- Bat Night- SOLD OUT!
- Nature Explorer Days
- River Dipping – SOLD OUT!!
- Butterflies, Bugs and Birds
- ‘Woven Nature’ Workshop
- Snow Widows with Katherine MacInnes
- COMMANDO – BRITAIN’S OCEAN WARRIORS THE LIVE TOUR
- Nature Journaling For Young Naturalists
- Moth Nights- SOLD OUT
- George Marston: Shackleton’s Antarctic Artist
- Gilbert White’s House Gin Event
- I’m an Explorer, Get Me Out of Here!
- We Love Volunteers Day
- Nature’s Pharmacy: Spring herbs to support our Health and Wellbeing
- Bats and the Impact of Light Pollution
- The Antarctic Peninsula: A geo-bio travelogue of Graham Land
- Photography Workshop
- Nature Journaling for Beginners
- Spiders!
- Timothy Tortoise Story Walk
- SOLD OUT: Wreath Making Workshops
- Creative Footsteps: On Gallows Down with Nicola Chester
- River Dipping
- SOLD OUT: Explorer Activity Days
- Nature and Art: Arts Award Discover for ages 5-14
- Outdoor Theatre: Little Red Riding Hood & the Three Funky Pigs
- Yoga Day: Rest & Restore
- SOLD OUT: Antarctic Explorers Home Educators Workshop
- SOLD OUT: Plant Lifecycles: Home Educator Workshop
- Nature Explorers Home Educator Day
- Moth Nights 2021
- Nature Explorers Home Educator Day
- SOLD OUT: Home School World Explorer Day
- SOLD OUT: Home School World Explorer Day
- Takeaway – British Night
- Herbs & Resilience
- POSTPONED: Wreath Making
- Crepuscular Creatures
- Natural Art
- River and Pond
- Trees and Woodland
- Meadow and Grassland
- Postponed: Received from Kensington: Gilbert White’s plants from London in 1756