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24 Jun 2020: As a postgraduate in Nottingham (in year after I left Trinity Hall), a Nigerian Jesuit priest lived on my corridor.

7 Jul 2020: One day while idly looking through our copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) I chanced upon an interesting doodle in the back endpapers. To find inscriptions, notes and drawings in our early printed books is not unusual. And these can offer

9 Dec 2020: The College is sorry to announce the death of Graham Howes (1938-2020), alumnus and Emeritus Fellow, on 8 December. Graham was born and brought up in Norfolk, and was always proud of his Norfolk antecedents. After national service in military

1 Apr 2020: Many of us who are stuck at home have turned our thoughts to our gardens. I have been at the bottom of my own garden over the weekend. It’s amazing what you can achieve in a few hours with determination and a flame thrower! Well, actually just a

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.

24 Apr 2020: Dr John Walshe matriculated at Trinity Hall in 1939 to study Medicine & Medical Sciences. On the 24 April he celebrates his 100th birthday. Dr Walshe discovered an effective treatment for Wilson’s disease, otherwise known as hepatolenticular

15 Sep 2020: The latest medieval manuscript at Trinity Hall to be digitised is a twelfth century copy of Josephus’ Historiae Antiquitatis Judaice (The Antiquities of the Jews), Ms. 4. The Latin translations of Josephus were incredibly popular throughout the

5 Nov 2020: It’s well documented that adding houseplants to our living spaces can help reduce anxiety and stress as well as boosting our happiness levels. Nurturing plants and watching them grow can be very satisfying, adding to our sense of contentment as

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

26 Aug 2020: Update on 26 August The Admissions Round has almost reached its conclusion now, and we are looking forward to welcoming our new first years at the start of the Michaelmas Term. The next few weeks will be an exciting time for them, and we will do

12 Apr 2020: Terry Waite CBE, the humanitarian and author, spent 1,763 days in captivity in the Lebanon, the first four years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Following his release in 1991 he was elected a Fellow-Commoner of Trinity Hall, where he

6 Jan 2020: There is in the Old Library of Trinity Hall a manuscript (Trinity Hall, Ms. 48) dating from the eighteenth century which has advice about studying law.  Books about how to study law are a well-established feature of modern legal educational

3 Dec 2020: As part of a community effort to make sure people don’t go hungry in Cambridge, the Trinity Hall kitchens provided food for a local food bank based at Cambridge Regional College in King’s Hedges.

4 May 2020: This time last year we would not have thought that attending religious services in front of a screen would be commonplace. Three Trinity Hall contemporaries from 1967 tell us of their experience: “Little did we realise on Sunday 15 March 2020 that

11 Dec 2020: Food is an important part of Christmas festivities and many of our present day gastronomic traditions have their origins in centuries old recipes. These recipes were shared by word-of-mouth or passed down in private notes or journals, but from the

16 Apr 2020: In Lent term, the kitchen introduced carbon footprint labels in the cafeteria that indicate the greenhouse gas emissions per 100g for each of the main course dishes prepared by the kitchen. The informative labels help the catering team and visitors

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

29 Jun 2020: On Saturday 27 June Trinity Hall held an online celebration for the graduands of 2020. The year group joined us on LinkHall, our online community platform, from midday for a series of videos, messages from Fellows, staff and alumni, and a virtual

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

5 Nov 2020: The first week of November has been a significant date for Trinity Hall since its foundation 670 years ago, featuring important donations that gave the College the distinctive look we see today and our connections with the Gunpowder Plot.

30 Sep 2020: On 29 September 2020, Blackbaud contacted us to advise that after the initial ransomware attack, they continued their investigation which revealed a subset of customers who had been affected further than they previously anticipated. They have

20 May 2020: Apart from the general anxiety that came with the sudden and rapid change in the operations of the University as a result of the pandemic, mine was worsened for two reasons. Firstly, I am visually impaired and the lockdown meant that I was going to

12 Nov 2020: Trinity Hall has recently approved a revised investment policy. As part of this revision the College has committed to divest within six months from direct investments in companies whose primary activity is in fossil fuel exploration or extraction.

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

17 Oct 2020: College Nurse Jo Rhodes comes to Trinity Hall after working as a staff nurse for two years in Accident & Emergency. When Coronavirus took hold across the country she and her colleagues faced a new challenge.

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

12 Nov 2020: Dr Gonçalo Bernardes, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Chemistry at Trinity Hall, has been selected to receive the 2020 International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist award.

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

17 Jul 2020: Trinity Hall’s first virtual Open Day for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) applicants on was co-organised by the Admissions Office and current students, led by BME Officer, Maro Okiti. More than 120 people attended the virtual Open Day on Friday 26

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

13 Apr 2020: Trinity Hall musicians are using their talents to keep our community spirits up by recording performances in their homes. From piano to vocals to French horn, and classical to modern songs. Every Monday, the Trinity Hall YouTube channel shares a new

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

24 Sep 2020: The University plans for lectures to be run on an online-only basis in the next academic year when stringent social distancing requirements are expected to remain in place.

8 Dec 2020: So many of the entries into the competition showed that while lockdown has been a challenge there has been humour and joy in there too. ... The winning entry won vouchers worth £50 and the runners up received vouchers worth £25.

31 May 2020: they find to study, especially when they move on to more independent research in their final year, or undertake postgraduate courses.

25 Sep 2020: Alumnus Billy Boyle (1997) is a serial inventor, entrepreneur and a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medallist. At Cambridge, he co-founded Owlstone Nanotech, marketing a programmable microchip sensor with applications ranging from toxic gas

5 May 2020: Professor Jack Thorne (2004) has become the youngest living member of the Royal Society, aged 32. He has been recognised for multiple breakthroughs in diverse areas of algebraic number theory. Professor Thorne studied Mathematics at Trinity Hall

22 May 2020: A joint statement from the heads of all 31 colleges at the University of Cambridge, including the Acting Vice- Master of Trinity Hall Dr Daniel Tyler, has appeared in The Times. The statement says in full: “As heads of Cambridge colleges, we have

13 Nov 2020: At the start of the last academic year, the Vice-Chancellor announced the Harding Challenge, made possible by part of a £100 million gift from David and Claudia Harding. The Harding’s vision is to encourage new donors to collegiate Cambridge and

3 Jun 2020: Announcing the social entrepreneurs shortlisted for the 2020 Cambridge Social Innovation Prize, awarded by Trinity Hall and the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cambridge From fighting loneliness on your morning jog, to

6 Nov 2020: The most vital message that members of academic staff want to put across at this difficult moment of entering a second lockdown is that we want you to take great care of your wellbeing – and that we are here to help and support you.

20 Jul 2020: As businesses struggle through COVID-19 lockdown, many social entrepreneurs face an unexpected challenge – unprecedented demand for their services, which address deep needs in the community. The second annual Cambridge Social Innovation Prize,

7 May 2020: Search. Trinity Hall postgraduate student wins Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award. Trinity Hall postgraduate student wins Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award.

27 Jul 2020: A woman who had a life-saving kidney transplant back in 1970 celebrates 50 years of healthy active life. Angela Dunn, now 74 and living in France, is thought to be the longest-surviving transplant* patient in the world, still leading a healthy life

30 Nov 2020: Taking on a tech giant like Google requires preparation and hard evidence, particularly when the target for legal challenge is the jewel in its crown – the Google search engine. A recent ruling made against Google shows European nations are taking

4 May 2020: Seven of Trintiy Hall’s final year medical students graduated earlier than planned on 13 April from the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine. This enables them to seek early registration with the General Medical Council (GMC),

30 Sep 2020: The Meetings Industry Association (mia) has awarded Trinity Hall AIM Covid Secure accreditation, highlighting our excellent health and hygiene standards. The AIM Secure award also recognises our operational excellence, our commitment to best

27 Apr 2020: We have a solemn responsibility to ensure that we offer our academic places (whether undergraduate or postgraduate) fairly, to those applicants who have the greatest ability and potential. ... A further 24 received smaller grants. Donations are vital in

15 Dec 2020: The Bursar 4The Senior Tutor 6. The Postgraduate Tutor 7 The Admissions Tutor 8. ... As of August 2020, the Graduate Tutor is now called the Postgraduate Tutor.

2 Nov 2020: year. The new academic year will be very different to usual as strict social distancing requirements will be in place, along with other measures in accordance with public health guidelines. ... Postgraduate student wins Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact