...the panorama of a self-forgotten milieu. - MonopolToffs behaving badly: 1980s high society
in photos. - The Times The pictorial equivalents of Evelyn Waugh's sentences. - The New Yorker
Modest though he is Dafydd's photographs will endure for having perfectly captured a society
on the brink of decline. Unmissable listening. - Country & Townhouse podcast Wonderfully ironic
every point in the picture ignites and knows how to entertain very well. - Lovely Books Dafydd
catches those moments of genuine exhilaration wealth and youth. - The Hollywood Reporter 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
