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England: The Last Hurrah

By (author) Dafydd Jones

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""...the panorama of a self-forgotten milieu.""Â Â â€”Â Monopol ""Toffs behaving badly: 1980s high society in photos.""Â â€”Â The Times ï»¿â€œThe pictorial equivalents of Evelyn Waughâ€™s sentences.â€Â â€”Â The New Yorker ""Modest though he is, Dafyddâ€™s photographs will endure for having perfectly captured a society on the brink of decline. Unmissable listening.""Â â€”Â Country & Townhouse podcast ""Wonderfully ironic, every point in the picture ignites and knows how to entertain very well.""Â â€”Â Lovely Books â€œDafydd catches those moments of genuine exhilaration, wealth and youth.â€Â â€”Â The Hollywood Reporter ï»¿â€œI wondered if the party guests Iâ€™d photographed were just re-enacting a nostalgic fantasy, an imaginary versionâ€¯of Englandâ€¯that already no longer existed.â€ â€“ Dafydd Jones Throughout the 1980s, award-winning photographer Dafydd Jones was granted access to some of Englandâ€™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 Thatcherâ€™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 â€˜Sublime vintage photographs...â€™ â€“ Hermione Eyre, The Telegraph â€˜In The Last Hurrah...we see familiar faces from British high society poised on the brink of adulthood.â€™ â€“ Eve Watling, Independent