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Celebrating 400 years since Shakespeare’s First Folio
As part of the 400th anniversary celebration of Shakespeare’s First Folio, Trinity is exhibiting two copies of this foundational work and the Shaffer Playwright-in-Residence Tom Murray is developing his play North Star, following a staged reading at Norwich Theatre Royal…
Hidden Casanova letter discovered
Giacomo Casanova’s legendary life of adventure is well known from his autobiographical Mémoires. The Venetian writer and traveller charmed his way across eighteenth-century Europe. The discovery of a hitherto unknown letter shows that Casanova was also close to his family and…
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The Byron Festival at Trinity
Trinity marked 200 years since its most famous literary alumnus died, on 19 April 1824, with The Byron Festival at Trinity. The Festival included a conference, a Recital, poetry readings, an exhibition and the Byrencore. One attendee said: “We had…
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Looking back on the Byron bicentenary
A year ago, on Friday 19 April 2024, Trinity College announced the discovery of a letter about Lord Byron’s notorious memoirs, written the year before he died and his memoirs destroyed. Byron died on 19 April 1824 in Missolonghi while…
Pittoni Painting returns to the Wren
Pittoni’s imposing oil painting ‘An Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton’ returned to the Wren Library last month following an absence of over a year during which time it was displayed in the exhibitions at the Grand Palais, Paris and in…
Trinity says farewell to Sub-Librarian
Trinity’s Sub-Librarian, Sandy Paul, will retire this week. The Sub-Librarian’s post was established in 1773 and Sandy has been in the role for 11 years and has worked at Trinity for 25 years. We caught up with him to hear…
Thomas Cromwell’s Book of Hours in Trinity College Library
A jewelled Book of Hours in Trinity College Library is now believed to have belonged to Thomas Cromwell, Chief Minister to King Henry VIII. The same book appears in Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1532-3 portrait of Cromwell in the Frick…
Return of the Gweagal Spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community
Today, in a ceremony held in the Wren Library at Trinity College Cambridge, four spears taken by James Cook and Joseph Banks on 29 April 1770 were permanently repatriated to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community. Trinity College and the Museum…
1823 letter discovered in Trinity’s Wren Library describes Byron’s lost memoirs
Elizabeth Palgrave’s 1823 letter describes the hand-written memoirs of Lord Byron seven years after his tumultuous marriage to Anne Isabella Milbanke had ended amid rumours of incest and homosexuality, which galvanised his departure from England in 1816 never to return…
Michaelhouse 700
A new exhibition at Trinity celebrating 700 years since the foundation of Michaelhouse throws light on one of the oldest colleges in Cambridge. In September 1324 the Chancellor of the Exchequer Hervey de Stanton founded Michaelhouse, following a tradition common…
2016 – April Newsletter
On Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 May, the Master, Sir Gregory Winter FRS (1970), will be in Washington D.C. and New York City for drinks, discussion and dinner. The evenings will include a talk given by Sir Gregory entitled ‘Antibodies: A Revolution…
English
The study of English at Trinity enables students to explore the most far-reaching of questions about what it means to be human, to exist in the world and to share this world with other people. We believe, though, that these…
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Reflections: Cherry blossoms, impermanence, and pandemics
Mickey Adolphson is Keidanren Professor of Japanese Studies at Cambridge. He recalls his first visit to Japan, during the cherry blossom season, and reflects on ideas of impermanence in the age of coronarvirus.
Historical Overview
The history of Trinity goes back to the reign of Henry VIII and most of its major buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries. The beauty and size of Trinity’s courts attract visitors from all over the world, but…
Trinity turns blue
Trinity’s iconic Wren Library turned blue last night in support of NHS staff and key workers across the UK. Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity, said: It’s wonderful to see the Wren Library turning blue in support of NHS staff…