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50th Anniversary Annual Gathering: 1976

We are delighted to welcome you back to College for the 1976 50th Anniversary Annual Gathering, which will be held on Wednesday 15 July. Please see below for details on the day and information on how you can sign up. To…

Annual Gathering: 2005, 2006, 2007

We are delighted to be welcoming alumni who matriculated in 2005, 2005, and 2007 to join us in a day of celebration and reunions in College on Saturday 11 July. Please see below for details on the day and information…

Annual Gathering: 1984, 1985, 1986

We are delighted to welcome alumni who matriculated in 1984, 1985 & 1986 to join us on a day of celebration and reunions in college on Saturday 12 September. Please see below for details on the day and information on how you…

Annual Gathering: 2014, 2015, 2016

We are delighted to be welcoming alumni who matriculated in 2014, 2015, and 2016 to join us for a day of celebration and reunions in College on Saturday 25 July. Please see below for details on the day and information…

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)…

College Publications

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:…

Master & Fellows

Trinity College is governed by the Master and 190 or so Fellows in a very wide range of University studies, who are responsible for maintaining it as a place of education, learning and research. The Fellowship includes Junior Research Fellows at the outset…

Trinity Postgraduate Student Funding Awards

Trinity College offers a range of competitive postgraduate awards (often referred to as studentships or bursaries) to students wishing to study at the University of Cambridge. Only applicants who have applied to the University of Cambridge for admission as postgraduate…

Publications by Alumni

Bookshelf If you are writing a book or have just been published, we’d love to hear from you! To include your publication on our alumni bookshelf, please send details and a jpeg of the book cover, together with any other…

Remembrance Day at Trinity

Trinity College students will plant 619 poppies on the grass in Great Court for the annual Remembrance Day service, which this year marks the end of the First World War. 619 members of College lost their lives in the conflict…

Black Cantabs: History Makers at Trinity

Trinity College is hosting an exhibition of Cambridge’s iconic black graduates – complete with new portraits of Ofcom CEO Sharon White and current Trinity students. ‘Black Cantabs: History Makers’ will be in Trinity’s Antechapel, 6 – 31 March 2019,  telling…

Parwana Fayyaz wins Forward Prize 2019

Parwana Fayyaz is from Kabul, Afghanistan, and came to Trinity by way of Stanford for a PhD in Persian Studies at Cambridge. She speaks Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Arabic and English and began writing poetry in English about 10 years ago…

Guide to Great Court

A new guide to Great Court is available for visitors to the College. It provides a brief history as well as insight into the lives of some of the women, past and present, at Trinity. It builds on the celebrations…

Tributes paid to Dr Roger Dawe

Tributes have been paid to Dr Roger Dawe (1934-2020), classicist and Fellow of Trinity College, who was best known for his work on the Greek text of Sophocles. Dr Dawe published an important book on the textual transmission of Aeschylus…

Time for #TriniTea!

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…

Reflections: The Intimacy of Ink

Dr Carys Brown is a Junior Research Fellow in History. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century England; her particular interests include the social impact of religious difference and the history of children.

Trinity marks LGBT+ History Month 2021

The rainbow flag was raised from Newton’s Lawn and the Trinity Boathouse to mark the start of LGBT+ History Month 2021 in the UK. Trinity College Students’ Union LGBTQ+ Officer Ishbel Russell was delighted to raise the flag. I’m honoured…

Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic

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…

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos covers many of the languages of Asia and the Middle East, that represents about two-thirds of the world’s population. Covering a vast area with long histories, cultures and a diversity of languages, students…

Geography

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…

History

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 all knowledge is, in some form,…

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