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Wren Library displays Oppenheimer and Frisch bomb test documents
During Open Cambridge Trinity’s Wren Library features some famous and not so well-known items from its collections, including documents and eyewitness accounts of the world’s first nuclear detonation. Trinity Librarian Dr Nicolas Bell said: We’re delighted the Wren Library is…
Pittoni Painting returns to the Wren
Pittoni’s imposing oil painting ‘An Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton’ returned to the Wren Library last month following an absence of over a year during which time it was displayed in the exhibitions at the Grand Palais, Paris and in…
Inspired by ‘Don Juan’: Dr Dan Sperrin at The Byron Festival
Trinity Junior Research Fellow, Dr Dan Sperrin, who is writing a history of satire in English literature, is also a cartoonist, including for The London Magazine. He explains what inspired his new drawings for The Byron Festival at Trinity and…
Hidden Casanova letter discovered
Giacomo Casanova’s legendary life of adventure is well known from his autobiographical Mémoires. The Venetian writer and traveller charmed his way across eighteenth-century Europe. The discovery of a hitherto unknown letter shows that Casanova was also close to his family and…
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…
Visiting Trinity College
Guided Tours of Trinity We warmly invite you to explore Trinity College through our guided tours, led by our knowledgeable Porters. To book your spot, please visit our tour booking page. Our tours are available daily at the following times:…
Celebrating 400 years since Shakespeare’s First Folio
As part of the 400th anniversary celebration of Shakespeare’s First Folio, Trinity is exhibiting two copies of this foundational work and the Shaffer Playwright-in-Residence Tom Murray is developing his play North Star, following a staged reading at Norwich Theatre Royal…
Return of the Gweagal Spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community
Today, in a ceremony held in the Wren Library at Trinity College Cambridge, four spears taken by James Cook and Joseph Banks on 29 April 1770 were permanently repatriated to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community. Trinity College and the Museum…
Professor Jean Khalfa advises on MoMA’s Wifredo Lam exhibition
Trinity Fellow Professor Jean Khalfa will attend the private view of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibition Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, which he advised on. This major new exhibition opens next week in New York…
1823 letter discovered in Trinity’s Wren Library describes Byron’s lost memoirs
Elizabeth Palgrave’s 1823 letter describes the hand-written memoirs of Lord Byron seven years after his tumultuous marriage to Anne Isabella Milbanke had ended amid rumours of incest and homosexuality, which galvanised his departure from England in 1816 never to return…
Historical Overview
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…