"I wondered if the party guests I'd photographed were just
re-enacting a nostalgic fantasy, an imaginary version of England
that already no longer existed." - Dafydd Jones Throughout the
1980s, award-winning photographer Dafydd Jones was granted access
to some of England's most exclusive upper-class events. Now, the
author of Oxford: The Last Hurrah presents this irreverent and
intimate portrait of birthday parties and charity balls, Eton
picnics and private school celebrations. With the crack of a
hunting rifle and a spray of champagne, these photos give an almost
cinematic account of high-society England at its most riotous and
its most vulnerable. Against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain,
globalisation, the Falklands War, rising stocks and dwindling
inherited fortunes, Jones reveals the inner lives of the
established elite as they party long into the night-time of their
fading world. Praise for Oxford: The Last Hurrah 'Sublime vintage
photographs...' - Hermione Eyre, The Telegraph 'In The Last
Hurrah...we see familiar faces from British high society poised on
the brink of adulthood.' - Eve Watling, Independent
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