Trinity College Library, Cambridge (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social)

@drannaclark.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 5:02 AMReposted by @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

“Come, my friends.
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset…”
Ulysses, 1833, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, died #OTD 1892.
Trinity College Cambridge Chapel
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@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:20 AM

A very warm welcome to all new students starting today. The Admissions Book awaits in the Wren Library. We can't wait to meet you.

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:27 PM

The power of poetry.

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:23 PM

"I lose in them my instant of brief ills.
There is great easing of the heart,
and cumulance of comfort on high hills."

Geoffrey Winthrop Young, poet, author and mountaineer features in the current exhibition - Higher Education, Trinity in the Mountains.
#nationalpoetryday
#mountaineering

Black and white photograph of a man sitting on a rocky overhang with text Higher Education Trinity in the mountains.

Text and on black and white photograph of a mountain side-

Only a hill, but all of life to me’.
When poet, mountaineer and Trinity College
student Geoffrey Winthrop Young published these
lines in 1909, he captured a spirit of vertical
ambition and elevated joy which, in one
form or another, has pervaded Trinity’s five
centuries of history. From the likes of John
Ray, Isaac Newton and Adam Sedgwick,
who viewed mountains as theological
and scientific sites of wonder and
experiment, via the dizzyingly sublime
poetic peaks of Lord Byron, to the
pioneering mountaineers of the
modern age, this exhibition
explores how Trinity members
have repeatedly sought out
alternative forms of higher
education, whether atop the
roofs and spires of lowland
Cambridge itself or upon
the lofty heights of the Alps,
Andes and Himalaya
far beyond

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 9:55 AM

Exhibition News!
Trinity In the Mountains, A Higher Education, celebrates the rich history of climbing and literature of mountains among Trinity members from the 17th c to the present day.
Open to visitors 12pm-2pm Monday to Friday, free entry.
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/visi...
#cambridge #climbing

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 8:38 AM

We are so excited about the exhibition, and pleased to have collaborated with you on this project.

@alpineclublib.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 7:15 AMReposted by @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

We're very excited to be going to the opening of @trincolllibcam.bsky.social Trinity Mountaineers exhibition this evening!

Had the privilege of a sneak peak at the preperations a few weeks ago when delivering some loan items! #MountaineeringHistory #NightClimbing #Mountaineering

Photograph of the back of a painting with a photo of two men standing on it

Scrapbook open to a photo of a climber and a photograph of an alpine mountain range

A selection of books relating to night climbing in cambridge

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:27 PM

Interested in learninging about 3500 years of sheeppox history hidden within our oldest medieval manuscript?? Then today is your lucky day! 🐑🐑🐑🔗https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh3571

An image of a manuscript page, Trinity College Library MS B.10.5, f. 10r. https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.10.5/UV

Figure from scientific study on Sheeppox.

@rorynaismith.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 3:10 PMReposted by @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

Early medievalists may be happy to know that Simon Keynes’s collection of maps of Anglo-Saxon England has now been made freely available via @trincolllibcam.bsky.social These were commissioned by Simon and drawn (by hand) by Reg Piggott between 1991 and 2012. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/ma...

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 8:39 AM

We're happy to be of service! Not only can the maps be accessed via th site above, but a #IIIF collection of all of Piggott maps is available here as well: projectmirador.org/embed/?iiif-...

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 11:55 AM

To mark #Internationalliteracyday here is a horn book from the collection. They were used to teach the alphabet to children. This one shows a fragment of the Lords Prayer. Read more about it on the blog: trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/a...

A wooden board with a thin handle at the bottom showing a fragment of text with a thin layer of horn nailed over the top.

@drannaclark.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 5:00 AMReposted by @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

“Reason is the life of the law…” Sir Edward Coke, great English jurist, Lord Chief Justice, High Steward of University of Cambridge; died #OTD 1634; revived interest in Magna Carta, drafted Petition of Right (granted Royal Assent 1628).
Portrait Trinity College Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Aug 21, 2026, 11:58 AM

Fancy a trip round Anglo Saxon England? A wonderful collection of hand drawn maps have been digitised and are available here:https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/maps-of-anglo-saxon-england
#anglosaxon #maps #england