Philosophy
Are all truths knowable? Do human beings have free will? Are the mind and the brain just one thing, or two? Could morality be no more than a matter of social convention? The study of Philosophy provides a deeper understanding…
Information for current applicants
Information for applicants applying in 2023 for entry in October 2024 or deferred entry in October 2025 Thank you for your application to Trinity College. Below you will find the information you need for the next stages in the application…
Papers of Piero Sraffa (1898-1983), economist
The papers of Piero Sraffa are currently in the process of being digitised. They can be accessed on AtoM. Piero Sraffa was born in Turin in 1898 the son of Angelo Sraffa, a Professor of Commercial Law, and Irma Tivoli.…
#ExTRINordinary summer events continue
First it was the Olympics, with two Trinity women in STEM blazing a trail. Now it is the turn of recent graduates and current students to face a rather different kind of challenge: appearing on prime time television quiz shows…
Dr Naomi Richman: how religious ideas create experiences of the self, the body and sexuality
Dr Richman is an anthropologist of religion who explores how religious ideas create experiences of the self, the body and sexuality. Currently, she is as postdoctoral researcher for the Wellcome Trust funded project, Hidden Persuaders, based at the Department of…
Living History: Jenny Kumeta
My defining moment at Trinity
Living History: Elizabeth Huang
My defining moment at Trinity
Living History: Wanipa Ndhlovu
My defining moment at Trinity
Wren Display: Principia Mathematica
Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton First Edition. London, 1687
Myth-busting video encourages more black students to apply
Trinity Law student Wanipa Ndhlovu hopes a new set of videos presented by Cambridge alumna Courtney Daniella will encourage more BAME students to apply to Cambridge. In the first video released this week – ‘Courtney busts myths – the YouTube vlogger…
Wren Display: David Louis Clemetson
Item: Photograph of the First Trinity Rugby Boat Team. Clemetson is standing second from the left. (Add.PG.25) Date: c.1913
September Newsletter 2021
Two Trinity Fellows and a former Fellow have been recognised with prestigious Breakthrough and New Horizon Prizes for Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics. Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian (e1994) shared a 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences with Christ’s Fellow…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres visits Trinity
Cambridge’s newest Honorary Fellow, the United Nations Secretary-General, His Excellency António Guterres, was welcomed to Trinity by the Master Dame Sally Davies, the Vice Master Professor Grae Worster, and Cambridge Zero Director and alumna Professor Emily Shuckburgh. Earlier, the Chancellor of…
The Trinity students celebrating their heritage & pioneering change at Cambridge
As a first year law student in October 2018, Wanipa Ndhlovu went along to Cambridge University’s African Caribbean Society Motherland Conference not knowing what to expect. Fast forward a year and Wanipa is President of ACS, spearheading an expanded event,…
‘Everyone is from different backgrounds but we are all interested in maths’
Rhianna from Skegness was one of 60 school students from across the UK who attended the Women in Maths Residential, jointly run by Christ’s College and Trinity College, 23-25 March. Rhianna said: At the beginning I didn’t know anyone, but…
My mere presence here is a testimony to the fact that BME people do belong in spaces like Cambridge!
Wanipa Ndhlovu is TCSU’s BME Officer and in her first year of law. She is co-hosting a social event to discuss diversity at Trinity, with the College’s Admissions Tutor and Fellow for Ethnic Diversity, Dr Glen Rangwala. Here Wanipa outlines…
Succession: Michelle Acheampong
Michelle Acheampong First-year Land Economy student
College Overview
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).…
Honorary Fellows
HM The King (1988) James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, KT, PC, KC (1989) Prof. Walter Gilbert, FRS (1991) Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers, FRS (1999) Prof. Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, FBA (1999) Prof. Jeffrey Goldstone, FRS (2000)…
Professor Dame Sally Davies appointed Master of Trinity
Professor Dame Sally Davies DBE FRS FMedSci has been appointed the next Master of Trinity during the 40th anniversary of co-education at the College. Dame Sally will take up the role on 8 October 2019 when she will be formally ‘installed’…
The pleasures and peculiarities of returning to Trinity, 40 years on
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…
Reflections: Monuments, now and then
Adrian Poole, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, reflects on recent events.
Senior Tudors and Senior Tutor welcome students to Trinity
In an inventive play on the College’s history, Trinity College Students’ Union and the Tutorial Office have recruited founder Henry VIII and Elizabeth I to welcome students and convey COVID-19 messages in a clever and amusing way. TCSU President and…
Meet Trinity’s Junior Research Fellows 2021
Trinity has appointed eight Junior Research Fellows for 2021: Meet the JRF: Dr Naomi Richman From the NHS frontline to cancer research: meet JRF Dr Henry Lee-Six Meet the JRF: Dr Rita Teixeira da Costa On Swift, satire and stories: meet English…
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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