Trinity Golf Day 2021
We were delighted to be joined by a small, yet keen, group of alumni golfers on Thursday, 24 June 2021. The group, some of whom are pictured below, enjoyed 18 holes at the University’s home course – Royal Worlington. Whilst…
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Trinity College Punting
Trinity maintains a Punt Scheme, which is open both to members of College and to members of the general public. With the exception of members of the College who have requested to hire punts overnight by prior arrangement with the…
Birkbeck Lecture Series
The Birkbeck lectures focus on Ecclesiastical History.
Further Reading
There is, as yet, no full-length account of Trinity’s history. The following works, presented below in chronological order of publication, are suggested by way of introduction. Trevelyan’s brief sketch (*) – a copy of which is presented to Scholars upon…
‘I am inspired by David’s boldness and his willingness to stand up for causes he believed in’
One hundred years after Trinity alumnus David Louis Clemetson was killed on the Western Front, alumna Sarah Lusack returned to College to find out more about the Jamaican student and soldier, and to present a video about his extraordinary story. David…
The Trevelyan brothers and the First World War
The Trevelyan brothers, Robert, Charles and George, who all attended Trinity, provide a microcosm in one family of the range of attitudes towards the First World War. Trinity archivist Rebecca Hughes explores the brothers’ experience of and attitudes to war.…
Classics
Oedipus and the Sphinx: interior tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix from Vulci attributed to the painter of Oedipus (today in the Vatican Museums in Rome, cat. 16541)
Avid Bible study reveals what Protestants and Catholics really thought of the scriptures
Professor Mack P Holt is a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity for Michaelmas term 2018. He has taught early modern European history at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, for 29 years. How are you spending your time at Trinity?…
Amelia Hutchinson on the hidden histories of women at Trinity
During summer 2018, History student Amelia Hutchinson undertook an internship researching the hidden histories of women at Trinity, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of undergraduate women’s arrival at the College. Paula Wolff, Library Assistant, caught up with Amelia…
August Newsletter 2021
Trinity is delighted to be among the Cambridge Colleges hosting A Level students taking part in a new scheme launching today – STEM SMART (STEM Subject Mastery and Attainment Raising Tuition). This exciting widening participation initiative will provide enhanced learning,…
Music
The Music Tripos is designed for those interested in music as an academic discipline. Nonetheless, nearly all undergraduates reading music are keen and capable performers, and there are optional courses on instrumental or vocal performance in all three years. Trinity…
TriniTea: Giovanna, Library
Enjoying a #TriniTea with my girls today. My mug is from the University of Cambridge 800 Years anniversary. It was 2009; only eleven years ago, but so many things have changed, both personally and in general, that sometimes it truly…
TriniTea: Paula, Library
I was given this mug in July 2003 by my two ‘super sisters’: one works for a Community Health Team and is waiting for the results of a Covid 19 test. I find I’m choosing to drink from it much…
REVIEW: Annual Gathering 1990, 1991, 1992
REVIEW: Annual Gathering 1990, 1991, 1992
REVIEW: Annual Gathering 1972 & 1973
Almost 150 alumni who came up to Trinity in 1972 & 1973 returned to College on Wednesday 19 July for their latest reunion. The rain managed to hold of for most of the day, apart from a few showers. It…
Why you should apply for an outreach event
Trinity Fellow Carlos Fonseca specialises in Postcolonial Latin American Literature and Culture. He explains why school students should engage with College Outreach events and competitions.
Meet Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts, Mona Arshi
Mona Arshi is a poet and novelist from London. She is one of two new Fellow Commoners in the Creative Arts at Trinity. Here she writes about the transition from lawyer to writer, and why ‘you have to stalk a…
Sign up for Trinity’s Languages, Power and Cultures Programme
More than 70% of Year 12 students who participated in Trinity’s Languages, Power and Cultures Programme 2023 and applied to Cambridge, have received offers. These students, from state schools, have received offers for subjects including History, Classics, English and Anglo…
The Byrothon: a 24-hour reading of alumnus Lord Byron’s works
Trinity is hosting the The Byrothon: a 24-hour reading of alumnus Lord Byron’s works, 23 February – 24 February, which is free and open to all. The event launches the College’s bicentenary commemoration of Byron’s death, on 19 April 1824,…
Matriculation matters
Wearing their ‘Trinity blue’ gowns, 192 Freshers gathered in Nevile’s Court for the rite-of-passage Matriculation photograph on 2 October. Expertly managed by photographer John Thompson and his team, this year’s Freshers lined up in the cloisters and had their individual…
Trinity and École Normale Supérieure renew exchange agreement
Last week the College renewed the agreement with the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, continuing the decades-long relationship that has enabled dozens of students to undertake a graduate course at France’s foremost graduate school. The exchange agreement enables one…
Performing Black Womanhood: symposium, exhibition and concert
Trinity Fellow Commoner in the History of Race, Dr Adjoa Osei has convened a symposium, exhibition, and concert exploring the contributions of women of colour to early-twentieth-century modern art and performance on 28 April 2023 in the College Chapel. Performing…
Trinity flies rainbow flag to mark LGBT+ History Month
The rainbow flag will fly beside Newton’s apple tree at Great Gate on the first and last Friday of February as part of LGBT+ History Month. Students, staff and Fellows welcomed the advent of the rainbow flag at Trinity, which…
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