Ardis Butterfield is Marie Borroff Professor of English, French and Music at Yale, before which she was at UCL. An undergraduate at Trinity in the second year of female admission, Professor Butterfield has returned to the College as Senior Visiting…
Trinity’s Black History Month Society has organised a range of events and an exhibition exploring Afro-Surrealism this October. ‘The theme arose out of the negritude movement as a visual, literary and artistic movement deepening black consciousness amongst the diasporas,’ said…
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There are many intellectual justifications for the study of History. These include: the need for a society to understand its own past if it is to guide its future; the philosophically respectable argument that historical knowledge is the only possible type of…
Law is a fascinating and vital part of our lives, and we who teach and research law at Trinity are eager to share it with you. Please note that applicants for Law at Cambridge must take the LNAT by no…
Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity offers a dynamic, diverse and comprehensive coverage of language teaching and research to advance your skills and understanding, and transform your outlook and opportunities. Trinity offers a unique and very successful setting for language…
Trinity College is delighted to invite applications for undergraduates to be admitted into the PBS Tripos, by the UCAS deadline of 15 October 2024 to commence studies in October 2025. The highly popular PBS course at Cambridge is in its…
Elected a Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics in 2020, Dr Oliver Mayeux’s research on Louisiana Creole has contributed to a new Google app helping to revitalize endangered indigenous languages around the world. Here he explains his fascination for languages and…
Dr Benjamin Marschall talks about language and mathematics in our latest Q&A with new Junior Research Fellows. How did you become interested in philosophy? I came to philosophy through political theory: like many people I was a sort-of teenage…
Tom Murray is appointed Shaffer playwright-in-residence at Trinity 2023-2024. Here he writes about his inspiration and plans for the residency. Please tell us about yourself I’m a 23 year old playwright from the village of Linton in Cambridgeshire. I graduated…
In this year’s Lees Knowles Lectures, Professor Jay Winter, Charles J Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, will explore the aftermath of the First World War, from the Armistice of 1918 to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923,…
Dr Padraig Regan is an award-winning poet from Belfast and one of the two new Fellow Commoners in the Creative Arts at Trinity. Here they write about ‘intellectual voraciousness’ and their current plans for the Fellowship. Please tell us a…
On Sunday 11 February Trinity College will be hosting a lunch in Hall for the parents and guardians of first year undergraduate students. We very much hope that your family, as part of our extended College community, will be able to…
The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos covers many of the languages of Asia and the Middle East, an area that represents nearly 60% of the world’s population. Covering a vast area with long histories, cultures and a diversity of…
Trinity’s gardeners, joined by other staff and students, saw record number of birds including a kingfisher, an egret and two green woodpeckers during the Big Garden Birdwatch 2024. Apprentice Gardener, Ursula Morris said: ‘It’s great being a gardener because we…
Trinity alumna Rebecca Watts is a Cambridge-based poet and Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow. Her debut collection The Met Office Advises Caution (Carcanet, 2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and her second collection Red Gloves (Carcanet 2020) won a Gladstone’s Library…
As Trinity supports Imogen Grant’s quest for an Olympic medal, we look back on the College’s winners from the 1924 Paris Olympics. Charles Maxwell Eley, James McNabb, Robert Morrison and Terrence Sanders who had rowed together since their Eton College…
On Sunday 9 February, Trinity College will host an informal lunch for the parents and guardians of first-year undergraduate students. We very much hope that your family, as part of our extended College community, will be able to join us for…
Why study Geography at Trinity Trinity has a thriving community of undergraduate and postgraduate Geographers and typically make up to two offers to undergraduate Geographers every year. Trinity is a large college with excellent facilities, notably a well-stocked library that…
Dr Clare Walker Gore, Junior Research Fellow in English, makes her pick of the best Victorian novels for lockdown.
The Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic (ASNC) Tripos is concerned with the history, languages, and literatures of the different peoples of the British Isles between the departure of the Romans and the coming of the Normans. It is therefore strongly interdisciplinary…
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Welcome to the website of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Trinity was founded by Henry VIII in 1546, when he combined two existing colleges (King’s Hall and Michaelhouse) and seven hostels (Catherine’s, Garratt, Gregory’s, Ovyng’s, Physwick, St Margaret’s, and Tyler’s).…
The College has issued a number of publications over the years. Some of these books are listed below. W. W. Greg, [Capell’s Shakespeariana]: catalogue of the books presented by Edward Capell to the library of Trinity College in Cambridge (London:…
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