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Annual Gathering: 1972 & 1973

We are delighted to welcome you back to College for your annual gathering. Please see below for details on the day and information on how you can sign up. To see a list of FAQs about the gathering, please click…

Andrew Marvell: 400 years on

Professor Angela Leighton, Senior Research Fellow at Trinity, describes her creative response to the 400th anniversary of the birth of Andrew Marvell. 31 March 2021 is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Andrew Marvell (1621-78), poet and politician, one-time…

REVIEW: Trinity on the Backs

We were delighted to be joined by alumni and guests across for ‘Trinity on the Backs’ on 31 July and 31 August. These ‘picnic-style’ events provided alumni with the perfect opportunity to return to Cambridge and enjoy Trinity with their…

Nancy Pelosi meets Trinity’s trailblazing women

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, was welcomed to Trinity by the Master, Dame Sally Davies and Serena Cole, President of Trinity College Students’ Union. The three women are all trailblazers in their respective roles. Dame…

Social Media

The Library has been active on social media since 2014. Our blog, Treasures from the Collection, focuses on the digitisation project, items from the Crewe Collection, and news of interest to the general public visiting the Wren and our website…

TriniTea: Sandy, Library

This mug was bought in the Hermitage on my one and only visit to St Petersburg in 2015. It’s an image from a Lubok, a Russian popular print, and it shows Peter the Great. I use it almost every day…

TriniTea: Ben, Library

I’ve been drinking tea and catching up with Ai Weiwei interviewed on ‘The Today Programme’ this morning. While it’s been sunny I have quite enjoyed the new experience of working from home. Now that we have some April showers, not…

Law at Trinity

It is possible to study law at Trinity either for all three years of the Law Tripos, as a new undergraduate student, or for only two years, as a student transferring to law from another subject (a “changeover student”) or…

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…

Modern Manuscripts

The images in the Wren Digital Library are Copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge and covered by a Creative Commons BY-NC license. Anyone wishing to obtain the original high resolution images for publication or for other reasons should please contact the…

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)

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