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OXFORD: THE LAST HURRAH

by Dafydd Jones (ACC Art Books £20)

OXFORD: THE LAST HURRAH by Dafydd Jones (ACC Art Books £20)

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Students drinking and behaving badly is not exactly breaking news — but this is Oxford University in the Eighties. Here, photographer Dafydd Jones offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the glamour and hedonism of those bright young things.

Pictured are members of the university rowing team who traditionally set fire to a boat and, after a boozy dinner, jump through the flames.

Also featured are Hugh Grant dressed in skimpy leopard print, a fresh-faced Boris Johnson at a ball with his first wife Allegra and Nigella Lawson being carried in a litter while playing croquet. This debaucherous book is a Who’s Who of Britain’s privileged elite.