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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.

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

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

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.