300 years of Gilbert White - Look at the timetable for exciting new events.

GW300 is a partnership of organisations that have come together in the 300th anniversary of Gilbert White’s birth with the aim of widening appreciation of his life and work and to highlight his relevance to the modern world in a time of rapid and potentially very damaging environmental change.
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Our aims are to increase awareness of Gilbert White and his work among new audiences - especially his message of the need to live in harmony with nature; to work with partners to inspire the widest possible range of people, especially the young, to engage with the natural environment; and to sustain and develop the legacy of Gilbert White into the long term.
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Gilbert White & The Oates Collections are working alongside many different heritage and nature organisations to celebrate this momentous year. For a full list of our partners click here.
Learn moreIn the news
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03 Apr
Covid-19 Update
Read moreObviously due to the Covid-19 all our GW300 events have been cancelled or postponed. The celebrations have now moved online so please follow us on
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13 Feb
Gilbert White: A Pioneer in Kissing
Read moreThe pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, who celebrates his 300th birthday in 2020, is known for many firsts – the first ecologist, the first to describe a
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26 Jan
Hampshire Garden Trust partners with Gilbert White Museum to help promote GW300
Read moreBlog from Hampshire Garden Trust It’s the start of an exciting year for the Gilbert White Museum in Selborne as it begins to celebrate Gilbert
Gilbert White: Inspiring generations...
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Gilbert White simply observed nature with a sharp eye and wrote about it lovingly.
Gerald Durrell -
A man in total harmony with his world
David Attenborough -
It shows what a real love of nature will do.
John Constable -
In this present year, 1915, at least, it is hard to find a flaw in life he led.
Edward Thomas -
Selfishly, I, too, would have plumbed to know you: I could have learned so much
W. H. Auden -
From reading White’s Selborne, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become a ornithologist
Charles Darwin -
Gilbert White’s book, more than any other, has shaped our everyday view of the relations between humans and nature.
Richard Mabey -
A sweet delightful book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
He raises his eyes to the horizon and looks and listens.
Virginia Woolf