Academic & heritage project on Trinity College Edinburgh. Its altarpiece, building, institution, rituals, music, patronage, and networks.
Joined July 2021
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
24 Jul 2025
Owners of an historic church near Dumfries, who removed two medieval bells from its tower without necessary planning permission, are still refusing to return them despite losing their appeal to Scottish Government and being served an enforcement notice. 👇
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
16 Oct 2024
“Altarpiece: Art and Ambition in a fifteenth Century Edinburgh Merchant Family” FREE lecture on Thursday from our friend Jill Harrison from the @RevivingTrinity project. More here👇
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and SCT's blog on the Apse 👇
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
24 Jul 2024
Well it will be no surprise that @LizzieSwarbrick was utterly superb and fascinating this morning. Lovely to meet @RevivingTrinity and @TonyJonesQCWS. Deep gratitude to @SChurchesTrust for organising
19 Jul 2024
In preparation for Dr @LizzieSwarbrick's talk next week on the history of Edinburgh's Trinity Apse, we've been looking at the now lost Trinity College Church that opened its Jeffrey Street doors in 1877.
It's in the background of one of our director's magic lantern slides (1/10)
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
24 Jul 2024
A HUGE thank you to Dr @LizzieSwarbrick for her wonderful tour of Edinburgh's medieval Trinity Apse today.
Thanks also to @RevivingTrinity for arranging access and to the lovely group of folks who came along and asked so many insightful questions about this remarkable building!
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30 Aug 2024
Our very own Jill Harrison will be speaking at this about the wonderful work she’s done to find Trinity stones in Edinburgh’s wider cityscape.
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19 Jul 2024
More of our events - here part of celebrating Edinburgh’s 900 anniversary! Look out for our very own @LizzieSwarbrick and Jill Harrison (not on Twitter) in the programme.
18 Jul 2024
Join us in Sept for 'Mary of Guelders and the Story of the Trinity Collegiate Church: Queenship and female power in 15th Century Edinburgh'
A free lecture to celebrate #Edinburgh900: City of David. #Edinburgh #ForeverEdinburgh Book here: edinburghmuseums.org.uk/what…
ALT Historical photograph of Edinburgh National Gallery Scotland (creative commons )
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19 Jul 2024
Wowowow!
19 Jul 2024
Just look at this gorgeous and tiny model of Trinity! Wonderful!
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19 Jul 2024
Just look at this fantastic mock-up replacing Trinity where it originally stood (now platform 1 of Waverley Station).
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
16 Jul 2024
This is a rarely open amazing medieval building with a fascinating history. Please do sign up as a friend of Scotland’s Churches Trust (or donate a tenner) and I’ll show you around!
16 Jul 2024
One of our fabulous Trustees, Dr @LizzieSwarbrick, has managed to secure us an exclusive visit next week to the Trinity Apse, Edinburgh's hidden medieval gem.
She's providing a tour and talk for 20 folk (free to SCT Friends/£10 others).
Details below 👇
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
17 May 2024
A little bit wobbly after up close viewing #GallowayHoard rock crystal jar, a touchstone & gold aestels pre-900 @NtlMuseumsScot. Hard to believe how intricately beautiful. Mind boggling this came out of the ground just 7 years ago, conserved & ready to go nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collec…
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23 Apr 2024
One of the other Scottish St Georges is on our very own altarpiece! We’ll have brand new research on it as part of our forthcoming book on Trinity church.
23 Apr 2024
It’s #StGeorgesDay so here’s a beautiful image of the saint (along with the instruments of the Passion and a great beasty border) on the blind-stamped binding of a 16thC missal made for St Nicholas’, Aberdeen. Now in @uoacollections
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23 Apr 2024
We can’t let #StGeorgesDay go by without sharing our own image of the saint accompanying Queen Margaret of Denmark in Hugo van der Goes’ spectacular altarpiece made for Trinity. He is so delicious, right down to his decorative chainmail.
Trinity had an altar dedicated to him too!
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
11 Apr 2024
Delighted to involved in running this interdisciplinary workshop on Place-Based Histories for Early Career Researchers, organised by @IHRHistoryLab, @CHPPC_IHR @ihr_history & hosted by @sheffhallamuni on 5th September 2024.
Find out more & sign up here: history.ac.uk/events/place-b…
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
12 Apr 2024
Another piece of writing sent off today - but the first one where I’m a co-editor.
This one is a VERY FULL architectural and art historical analysis of Trinity, Edinburgh. She’s such a beauty but I’m done with her for this weekend at least. @RevivingTrinity
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
17 Jan 2024
It was a great pleasure to talk to the Old Edinburgh Club this evening - what a lovely and engaged audience! I hope to take you all to Trinity soon. @RevivingTrinity
11 Jan 2024
Further details of our January talk with @LizzieSwarbrick. Jill Harrison will also introduce the Trinity Network’s Project, Reviving the Trinity Stones, which the Old Edinburgh Club is supporting through the Jean Guild Grants programme.#edinburghhistory
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12 Jan 2024
Who wants to go and see an opera about Robert Bruce in St Giles with me? You know you wanna!
12 Jan 2024
PS: not free at St Giles', but tickets are available now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bruce…
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
23 Oct 2023
Have you heard about “The More Taubronar” before? 🥁
This #BlackHistoryMonth, Virginie Chaverot from @LivingHistorySc tells the fascinating story of the drummer of African ancestry at the court of James IV on our blog. 👇
ow.ly/11LM50PZHBR
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
30 Oct 2023
Tick tock! Come tell Scotland’s history @NtlMuseumsScot! Curator vacancy in Renaissance & Early Modern History. One of my fave objects 🎺🎺 David Ramsay watch c.1615 given by James VI&I to Robert Ker. Pls RT! Deadline, remember remember 5 November! 🧨🎇vacancies.nms.ac.uk/VacancyD…
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Reviving the Trinity retweeted
1 Nov 2023
My article on Collecting the Nation at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is available in the new issue of Journal of the History of Collections
1 Nov 2023
New issue of the Journal of the History of Collections Vol. 35, No. 3 (2023) academic.oup.com/jhc/issue/3… @OUPAcademic
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