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Students on the Target Oxbridge programme will visit Cambridge on Tuesday to get a taste of College life, meet students and Fellows, and find out more about studying here. Some 40 students will have lunch at Trinity in between a…
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…
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 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…
Dr Clare Walker Gore, Junior Research Fellow in English, makes her pick of the best Victorian novels for lockdown.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Trinity offers a unique setting for the study of modern languages and cultures, enabling students to gain deep expertise in language, critical analysis, and intercultural communication. At Trinity you will discover a truly global community of students from a wide…
Trinity College is delighted to invite applications for undergraduates to be admitted into the PBS Tripos, by the UCAS deadline of 15 October 2025 to commence studies in October 2026. The highly popular PBS course at Cambridge is in its…
Short-listing and the 2000-word statement A short-list of candidates will be drawn up in the week beginning 29 September 2025. Candidates will be told as soon as possible thereafter whether they have been short-listed. Those on the short-list will be…
Elected a Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics in 2020, Dr Oliver Mayeux’s research on Louisiana Creole has contributed to a new Google app helping to revitalize endangered indigenous languages around the world. Here he explains his fascination for languages and…
Dr Benjamin Marschall talks about language and mathematics in our latest Q&A with new Junior Research Fellows. How did you become interested in philosophy? I came to philosophy through political theory: like many people I was a sort-of teenage…
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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,…
Dr Padraig Regan is an award-winning poet from Belfast and one of the two new Fellow Commoners in the Creative Arts at Trinity. Here they write about ‘intellectual voraciousness’ and their current plans for the Fellowship. Please tell us a…
If you’re interested in finding out more about what it’s like living as a student at Trinity College, you’ve come to the right place. Here you will find details of catering and accommodation, followed by an insight into some of…
Tom Murray is appointed Shaffer playwright-in-residence at Trinity 2023-2024. Here he writes about his inspiration and plans for the residency. Please tell us about yourself I’m a 23 year old playwright from the village of Linton in Cambridgeshire. I graduated…
Trinity’s gardeners, joined by other staff and students, saw record number of birds including a kingfisher, an egret and two green woodpeckers during the Big Garden Birdwatch 2024. Apprentice Gardener, Ursula Morris said: ‘It’s great being a gardener because we…
Trinity alumna Rebecca Watts is a Cambridge-based poet and Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow. Her debut collection The Met Office Advises Caution (Carcanet, 2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and her second collection Red Gloves (Carcanet 2020) won a Gladstone’s Library…