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Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
Trinity College was founded as a training house for Catholic priests in the sixteenth century, and the site of the college, now very much in the city centre, was originally chosen for its quiet, rural aspect.
The history of Trinity College, Oxford documents the 450 years from the foundation of Trinity – a collegiate member of the University of Oxford – on 8 March 1554/5. The fourteenth oldest surviving college, it reused and embellished the site of the former Durham College, Oxford.
The Trinity Archive is home to the administrative records of the college from the Foundation in 1555. These include charters and legal documents, accounts and estate papers, records of elections and admissions, minutes of governance, and plans of buildings.
Oxford University, Trinity College This page summarises records created by this Organisation The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the...
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To this end, Trinity has begun a research project to look into the lives of individuals who had connections with the Atlantic slave trade and its legacies. It is a matter of public record that nine individuals who were matriculated students at Trinity between 1759 and 1834 were also owners of enslaved persons.
