Trinity Hall, Cambridge

19/10/2026

A warm welcome to the newest members of our postgraduate community. 🎓

On Friday evening, 86 postgraduate students gathered by Latham Lawn for their official matriculation photograph, marking the start of their time at Trinity Hall (or for some, continuation of their studies here).

We look forward to seeing them get involved with and shape our postgraduate community.

15/10/2026

Trinity Hall’s Rosalind Howell is one of the many University of Cambridge students helping local organisations tackle inequality.

She drew on her psychology degree to turn complex information into accessible social media content for families and helped raise awareness of the Cambridge Acorn Project.

Go Rosalind!

This summer, 25 Cambridge University students spent six weeks volunteering full-time with organisations across the city, providing extra support where it's needed most.

14/10/2026

Happy 100th birthday, Winnie-the-Pooh 🐻

Did you know Trinity Hall once had its own Affable Society of Bears?

In the late 1920s, a group of friends adopted bear names and documented their adventures in a series of cartoons. One member took the name Mr Edward Bear - the original name of Winnie-the-Pooh in A A Milne's 1924 poem 'Teddy Bear'.

These original drawings from the College archives offer a delightful glimpse into student life 100 years ago.

14/10/2026

Our new Fellows have been formally welcomed to the College at the annual Admission of Fellows and Scholars ceremony, held last night (13 October) in the College’s historic Chapel.

Master, Mary Hockaday, said: “I am delighted to welcome such a remarkable group of Fellows across such a range of disciplines. I look forward to them adding to the intellectual pulse of College and bringing their energy and commitment to our wonderful community.”

The 15 new Fellows come from a range of backgrounds including medicine, architecture and history. They also include one Honorary Fellow: Trinity Hall alumnus Jonathan Klein, the co-founder of Getty Images.

Trinity Hall welcomes 15 new Fellows to the college community. They represent a wide range of academic disciplines.

07/10/2026

Generations of women have shaped Trinity Hall since its founding in 1350, and even before the College officially existed. Sabina Huberth, a local woman, gifted land that would later become part of Central Site to the parish of St Clement’s. Documents in our Archive name a bricklayer, a glazer, bedmakers and a kitchen manageress from as early as the 17th century.

This week, current female and non-binary members of staff and the Fellowship came together to celebrate their place in Trinity Hall’s history with a group photograph as we mark 50 years since female students and Fellows were admitted to the College.

Among the staff photographed are leaders, specialists and early-career professionals working across key areas of College life. Our longest-serving member of staff has made an enduring contribution over her 40 years at Trinity Hall, and seen women take on an increasingly wide range of roles and responsibilities.

Our female and non-binary Fellows teach and research in areas as diverse as African politics, bioarchaeology, commercial law, computational biology, German-language film, psychiatry and 17th-century British history, to name a few. And we are led by two inspiring women – Master Mary Hockaday and Vice-Master Professor Jan-Melissa Schramm.

We wish we knew more about the early Trinity Hall women and their experiences, so as a copy of the staff and Fellows THwomen50 photo is carefully stored away in the Archive, we hope that when College marks 100 years of women at Trinity Hall, our photo will help paint a picture of who we were and what it was like for us here in 2026.

05/10/2026

109 new undergraduates donned their gowns this morning for their official matriculation photo 🎓

We’re excited to have our newest College members bringing fresh energy to Trinity Hall as they start their academic journey with us.

01/10/2026

What was it like to be one of the first women to study at Trinity Hall?

The College welcomed its first female Fellows and postgraduate students in October 1976, followed by undergraduates in October 1977. One of those undergraduates was Joanna Wade, who came to study history and then law.

As we mark the start of our THwomen50 anniversary today, Joanna looks back on her experiences at Trinity Hall and what it was like to be among the first women to study here.

28/09/2026

After unpacking their belongings and waving goodbye to parents and supporters, nerves begin to settle a little as our first-year students start induction week at Trinity Hall.

Our first years arrive a week or so before the start of term to settle into College and get to know the people around them before the academic year gets underway. Throughout the week, students take part in sessions about academic and College life, and enjoy a variety of social activities in College and around Cambridge.

Welcome to the newest members of Trinity Hall!

What’s your favourite memory of your first few weeks at College?

24/09/2026

As we creep further into autumn and closer to the start of the new academic year, gardener Oliver looks back on summer in the gardens, considers what drier seasons might mean for the future, and highlights the importance of being inspired by others.

This summer has been challenging. In the absence of rain, we targeted watering with watering cans to where it was most needed and made use of the harvested rainwater collected during the winter months at our Wychfield Site. A handful of plants thrived: Wisterias in Front and Avery courts; the Fig tr...