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2 Nov 2020: The focus of the College is strongly academic and students are required to satisfy high academic entry requirements. ... and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements.

11 Dec 2020: Before the school exam grades were published in August, there had been four withdrawals by offer-holders for 2020 entry (cf. ... A good number of Trinity Hall postgraduates continue to proceed to research fellowships and to other positions of academic

12 May 2020: Life in the former “death strip” of the Berlin Wall By Katerina Biliouri (2000) “I see you see me. I’ve been tapping all day, working on my laptop on the dinner table behind our wall-to-wall living room windows. Daytime with a coffee by my

26 May 2020: Here is a poem by the English poet, Geoffrey Hill. Christmas Trees Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell bleached by the flares’ candescent fall, pacing out his own citadel, restores the broken themes of praise, encourages our borrowed days, by logic of

7 May 2020: During lockdown, I have been ‘meeting’ weekly on Zoom with the friends I made while training for ministry thirty years ago. We’re scattered around the UK and beyond, these days and see each other less often than I’d like. But these are

19 May 2020: Highs and lows with Elgar When I went up to the Hall in 1967 to read Modern and Mediaeval Languages, I took with me the rather dodgy amplifier for an electric guitar which I had never learned to play and a painted plywood box of my own manufacture

16 Apr 2020: Gerard Manley Hopkins poem God’s Grandeur Hopkins poem is not just another lament for the wounds we have inflicted on our world. As a Christian priest, a Jesuit, he sees the damage we have done as our failure to “Reck God’s rod”, and calls

23 Apr 2020: Mia Hansen-Løve’s film Things to Come (L’Avenir, 2016) depicts a woman at a time of personal crisis: her husband has unexpectedly left her, her publisher has dropped the book series she edits, and caring for her elderly mother is becoming an

30 Apr 2020: Invictus, by William Ernest Henley Rumoured to have been one of the late Nelson Mandela’s favourites, Invictus by William Ernest Henley, is one of the few poems in my life that continues to speak, especially in times of crisis. It is the best

30 Nov 2020: The decision had been made to admit female postgraduate and undergraduate students on 14 December 1974. ... He also wrote a huge number of articles and essays, and many entries in The Dictionary of National Biography, which he founded.