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…
Black History Month 2021 at Trinity features a compelling exhibition of photographic portraits of students and their testimonies, alongside a new film by Sonum Sumaria. Award-winning photographer Henry Kamara has created portraits of undergraduates and postgraduates of African and/or Caribbean…
Black History Month 2021 at Trinity features a compelling exhibition of photographic portraits of students and their testimonies, alongside a new film by Sonum Sumaria (2008). The theme this year is Community, and award-winning photographer Henry Kamara has created portraits…
A grand set of rooms in the oldest part of College plays host to an eclectic exhibition of art by three former Fellow Commoners in the Creative Arts at Trinity. The exhibition in D3 Great Court is open to all,…
Early Years – 1546 to 1642
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 unveiled a Wild Crown, launched a new punt named Charles and announced the King Charles III Professorship at the University of Cambridge to mark the Coronation of the College’s alumnus. Trinity’s Vice Master, Professor Louise Merrett, said: The Coronation…
Leading writers Ben Okri and Benjamin Zephaniah will be in conversation on Thursday 15 October, 4pm-5.30pm, as part of Trinity’s celebration of Black History Month. The Famished Road, Ben Okri’s 1991 novel, won the Booker Prize that year. His other…
I rather enjoy occasional solitude. Of course, such enjoyment, for only a time, is a very different matter from feeling lonely, isolated, estranged, or forgotten. To feel like that is to suffer from a need for something that is missing,…
Professor Stephen Toope (1983), President and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) on his recent book “A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety” and other topics. Trinity in Japan invites Trinity Fellows, alumni, members…
If there is one welcome daily ritual we share during lock down wherever we are in the world it is surely the tea or coffee break. Every day at 3pm (or thereabouts) Trinity will celebrate this small act of pleasure/respite/relaxation…
The ADC’s recent production of The Normal Heart, which involved Trinity students on stage and behind the scenes, has raised more than £1500 for the Terrence Higgins Trust’s campaign to end new cases of HIV in the UK by 2030.…
More than 160 students attended the Black History Month formal hall at Downing, with speakers Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza, of Cape Town University, and Ovie Soko, basketball player and Love Island star. In the run up to the event, the Trinity Law…
For Trinity students involved in staging Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart, AIDS was, says Alex Velody, ‘something before our lifetimes, done and dusted, to move on from perhaps.’ The Normal Heart, which runs at the ADC Theatre, 30 January…
In partnership with the Trinity Engineers Association (TEA), we are delighted to present our latest event: a talk on Artificial Intelligence and the benefits and challenges it poses, with a panel of expert alumni. The event will be taking place…
Mentoring at Trinity Figuring out the next steps after university is daunting. Perhaps you already have a career plan and are simply seeking some advice from someone who has been down that road. Or maybe you are at a crossroads…
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,…
Trinity Fellow Dr Jean Khalfa has been appointed an Officier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in recognition of his teaching and research in French and Francophone studies. The honour comes from the French Minister of National Education and Youth…
Join three black Presidents of Trinity College Students’ Union (TCSU) to hear about their time at Trinity in the 1960s, 1990s and the present day, as well as to discuss how to improve the black student experience at Cambridge. Clem…
The following pages contain information about our Essay Prizes run for Lower and Upper 6th Students internationally, including how to apply. The Robson History Prize will not run in 2024 but we are expecting to run it again in 2025.
Course Information
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…
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…
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