Visitors to the Wren Library during the next few weeks will be able to see a special display case containing items from the Pethick-Lawrence collection. For those unable to visit, we have devised a…

February 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. This blog highlights some of the inspiration for Joyce’s influential, if controversial, book and some of the d…

The papers of playwright Sir Peter Shaffer were bequeathed to Trinity College Library in 2016. On this centenary of his birth, our Assistant Archivist Diana Smith discusses the collection.   In the…

“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”

February having flown by, it is time once again to find out what we should be doing this month. Medieval manuscripts tell us that it’s finally time to get out into the garden. Our 15th centur…