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A change was on its way &#8211; best described by a newspaper as  &#8216;the Return of the Bright Young Things&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, Oxford  University was synonymous with the wealthy, the powerful and the  privileged. Many of the young people in these pictures moved on to have  careers in the establishment including Boris Johnson and David Cameron.  In these photographs, however, their youth is undeniable: teenagers in  full suits celebrate the rise of Thatcher in England and Reagan in  America, in between punting on the river, chasing romance and partying  through the night.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It was Thatcher&#8217;s Britain, a period of celebration for those that had money&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Dafydd Jones<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Oxford: The Last Hurrah<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n shows a world that has been written about and dramatized, yet never  photographed. Affectionate and critical, it pokes affectionate fun at  its subjects while celebrating English eccentricity. From the  architectural marvels of the colleges to misty mornings along the river  at dawn, this is Oxford at its most beautiful &#8211; and the students of the  1980s at their most raw and honest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visual documentary of the student culture of Oxford University during the 1980s, by photographer Dafydd Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5525],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13048","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-photography","7":"author-by-author-dafydd-jones","8":"publisher-acc-art-books","9":"series-dafydd-jones","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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