Editing Trinity Hall, Cambridge (section)

=== Societies ===

==== Trinity Hall Boat Club ====
Trinity Hall's oldest and largest society, the [[Trinity Hall Boat Club|Boat Club]] was founded in 1827, and has had a long and distinguished history; notably from 1890 until 1898, when the college stayed Head of the Mays for 33 consecutive days of rowing, which remains to this day the longest continuous defence by a single club of the bumps headship. The college won all but one of the events in the 1887 [[Henley Royal Regatta]], making it the most successful Cambridge college in Henley's history. The current boathouse, built in 1905 in memory of [[Henry Latham]], is on the [[River Cam]], a short walk from the college.

==== Trinity Hall Christian Union ====

Trinity Hall's Christian Union was founded in 1877, making it the second oldest JCR-listed society. It is part of the broader [[Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union]].<ref>[https://ciccu.org.uk/colleges/trinity-hall/ THCU CICCU Page]</ref>

==== Hesperides ====
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Trinity Hall's literary society, the Hesperides, was founded in 1923 by Neil McLeod Innes with the intention of discussing literary and artistic subjects. Named after the seminal work of the 17th-century poet [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]], in its early years the society hosted [[T. S. Eliot]], [[J. B. Priestley]] and [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] at its various dinners and functions. Old Hesperideans have gone on to some notoriety, none more so than [[Donald Maclean (spy)|Donald Maclean]], a spy and member of the [[Cambridge Five]]. The Hesperides disbanded in 1976, but was re-founded in 2020 to encourage literary activity after the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]; speakers have included Trinity Hall alumni [[Nicholas Hytner]] and [[Sophie Winkleman]].