Trinity’s Black History Month Society has organised a range of events and an exhibition exploring Afro-Surrealism this October. ‘The theme arose out of the negritude movement as a visual, literary and artistic movement deepening black consciousness amongst the diasporas,’ said…
Trinity is hosting the The Byrothon: a 24-hour reading of alumnus Lord Byron’s works, 23 February – 24 February, which is free and open to all. The event launches the College’s bicentenary commemoration of Byron’s death, on 19 April 1824,…
Oedipus and the Sphinx: interior tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix from Vulci attributed to the painter of Oedipus (today in the Vatican Museums in Rome, cat. 16541)
Tributes have been paid to Mihajlo Sporić, a third year Physics student at Trinity, who was buried today in his home town of Belgrade, Serbia, at a service attended by more than a thousand people. Trinity’s Senior Tutor, Professor Catherine…
Trinity’s new Year 12 Mentoring Scheme is designed to combat the negative consequences of the pandemic on pupils’ learning and compensate for support they could have missed out on for the next steps in their educational journey. Launching on 9…
One hundred years after Trinity alumnus David Louis Clemetson was killed on the Western Front, alumna Sarah Lusack returned to College to find out more about the Jamaican student and soldier, and to present a video about his extraordinary story. David…
Ten years in the making, this scholarly tome was published on 19 March at the start of the lockdown. The mug loyally attended the final phase of its editor’s labours. It commemorates an exhibition of photographs in the Wren Library…
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This mug was bought in the Hermitage on my one and only visit to St Petersburg in 2015. It’s an image from a Lubok, a Russian popular print, and it shows Peter the Great. I use it almost every day…
There is, as yet, no full-length account of Trinity’s history. The following works, presented below in chronological order of publication, are suggested by way of introduction. Trevelyan’s brief sketch (*) – a copy of which is presented to Scholars upon…
Jump to: Books and Journals | Borrowing |eResources | DVDs and CDs | Other Items Books and Journals Trinity is the largest of the Cambridge college libraries. We aim to stock all the books required for Part I undergraduate courses,…
The images in the Wren Digital Library are Copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge and covered by a Creative Commons BY-NC license. Anyone wishing to obtain the original high resolution images for publication or for other reasons should please contact the…
From West Horsley Place to Trinity Library | Work on the Crewe Collection The Crewe Collection consists of over 7,500 books bequeathed by Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, 1915-2014. Her father, Robert Crewe-Milnes, and grandfather, Richard Monckton Milnes, both studied at Trinity before…
Moving the collection The Crewe Collection arrived at Trinity in late 2015, a week before Christmas. The move was carefully planned, and preceded by months of visits to West Horsley Place, the last residence of the Duchess of Roxburghe, by…
The Library has been active on social media since 2014. Our blog, Treasures from the Collection, focuses on the digitisation project, items from the Crewe Collection, and news of interest to the general public visiting the Wren and our website…
The Trevelyan brothers, Robert, Charles and George, who all attended Trinity, provide a microcosm in one family of the range of attitudes towards the First World War. Trinity archivist Rebecca Hughes explores the brothers’ experience of and attitudes to war.…
Catherine Barnard is Professor of EU Law and Employment Law at Cambridge and Senior Tutor at Trinity. In 2019 she was awarded the Pilkington Prize for Teaching at Cambridge and in 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the British…
Lord Byron never visited the Yucatán. But Trinity Fellow, Professor Adrian Poole, found his writings about the ruins of the ‘Old World’ invaluable when reflecting on Maya ruins today. The great pyramid at the Maya ruins of Cobá in the…
Anna A Berman is a scholar of Russian literature and Assistant Professor at McGill University. As a Senior Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity this year, she tells us how about her research and her experience of College life. I am…
Professor Mack P Holt is a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity for Michaelmas term 2018. He has taught early modern European history at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, for 29 years. How are you spending your time at Trinity?…
The rainbow flag will fly beside Newton’s apple tree at Great Gate on the first and last Friday of February as part of LGBT+ History Month. Students, staff and Fellows welcomed the advent of the rainbow flag at Trinity, which…
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…
During summer 2018, History student Amelia Hutchinson undertook an internship researching the hidden histories of women at Trinity, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of undergraduate women’s arrival at the College. Paula Wolff, Library Assistant, caught up with Amelia…
Trinity’s 2020 calendar features 12 oil paintings by Monica Bilbao, an artist and member of the College’s Catering Department. Proceeds from calendar sales will go to the Teenage Cancer Trust. Monica was born in the Basque country and has travelled…
Post-doctoral researchers across the University of Cambridge without another College affiliation are invited to join the Trinity Postdoctoral Society. Membership provides a collegiate environment where researchers can meet others from different disciplines, share ideas and enhance their Cambridge experience. The…
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