Дурхэм Университетінің Тревельян Колледжі

College of Durham University

Trevelyan College (known colloquially as Trevs) is a college of Durham University, England. Founded in 1966, the college takes its name from social historian George Macaulay Trevelyan (pronounced "Trevillian"), Chancellor of the university from 1950 to 1957. Originally an all female college (the last to open in England), the college became fully mixed in 1992. Trevelyan is noted in Durham for its hexagon featuring architecture and for the display of daffodils that surrounds it every spring. As a constituent college of Durham University, Trevelyan is listed as a higher education institution under the Education Reform Act 1988. It is owned and for the most part run by the university.

During the early 1960s, the British Government commissioned the Robbins Report to look into the future of higher education in the UK. When published, the report recommended the expansion of universities and the student population. This was accepted as government policy. In 1963, the University of Newcastle was officially established as a separate entity from the University of Durham, which meant that new colleges within Durham were required in order to meet the number of new university places that the Government wished to create. As a result, the university planned for three new colleges on Elvet Hill; these went on to become Collingwood, Trevelyan and Van Mildert.

Trevelyan was planned to become an all women college, similar to St Mary's and St Aidan's, so as to increase the female population of the student body. The college was built on farmland south of St Mary's off Elvet Hill Road, which was owned by a local family, the Carpenters. Other people at the opening include the Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor, two Pro Vice Chancellors, the Bishops of Durham and of Ripon (whose wife, Mary Moorman, was a relative of Trevelyan and also present) and the Mayor and Mayoress of Durham.

In 1973, a 300 person capacity hall, the Sir James Knott Hall, (known colloquially as the "JKH") was opened in the presence of the Duke of Northumberland. In 1991 a new accommodation block was added to the main building. This block, the K block, is entirely ensuite and now typically reserved for final year and postgraduate students.

Trevs has its own comprehensive library, which is open 24 hours a day; music practice room; recording studio; cinema room; computer room; bar; buttery; and fitness suite; it also possesses a chapel, the Barn, which is used for prayer, talks and musical and dramatic rehearsals. The Undercroft, a relaxing seating area, links the bar with the rear of the college. The college also has a central quad, although it is actually an irregular icosagon, a setting for the college's musical events and formal ball. To the rear of the college there are landscaped lawns and a tennis court. The Sir James Knott Hall, catering for sports, theatrical and conference events is situated just across the college main entrance. The college hosts at least one musical per year, with recent productions including Anything Goes (2012), Annie Get Your Gun (2013), Thoroughly Modern Millie (2014), My Favourite Year (2015), Shout! (2015), Oklahoma! (2016), Sunshine on Leith (2016), Guys and Dolls (2017), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2018), The Addams Family (2019), Footloose (cancelled in 2020), Legally Blonde (2022), Gypsy (2023). The college has an orchestral society, a flute choir, which puts on productions several times a year.

The college also has a strong sporting profile, finishing 5th in the college league table in 2008/9. The college has also in recent years been college champions of women's hockey, Women's astro football, Basketball (both men's and women's) and Badminton, which saw Men's A finish the session undefeated. The college cheer team has also found success; winning both All Girl Groups Stunt and Co Ed Level 2, at the 2019 Intercollegiate Comp. They were also crowned Grand Champions in the same year. The college rugby club made headlines in 2017 after planning to hold a 'Miners versus Thatcher' social. As a result of the controversy the club was suspended for the remainder of the season.

The college motto, Vera Fictis Libentius, was taken from the inscription of the 1875 statue of Lord Macaulay in the antechamber of the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.