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Harry Ferguson: the Man, the Machines, the Memories
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Biography
A Memoir of Life at Abbotswood
by Peter Warr
Released: 28th January, 2025Format: Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781399990639
Harry Ferguson and his work in agriculture has enjoyed a world-wide following for decades. This book gives a rare, if not unique insight into the personality of the man in his home environment, through the eyes of one who got to know him and his family well and held him in the highest esteem.
Full synopsis
Can there be a more famous or influential man in the tractor world than Harry Ferguson?
When Ferguson returned to Britain from the USA after the Second World War, to join forces with the Standard Motor Company to make the famous TE20 tractor, he bought Abbotswood, a 700-acre country estate in Gloucestershire in 1945 as his family home.
The late Peter Warr joined the Abbotswood estate staff as a young man in 1948, remaining there until Ferguson’s death in 1960. Wor
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Angela Davis
American academic and political activist (born 1944)
For other people named Angela Davis, see Angela Davis (disambiguation).
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[3] Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She was active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama; she studied at Brandeis University and the University of Frankfurt, where she became increasingly engaged in far-left politics. She also studied at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to East Germany, where she completed some studies for a doctor
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Angela Davis
"An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend."
--Ibram X. Kendi
This beautiful new edition of Angela Davis's classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author.
"I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the past." --Angela Y. Davis
Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. First published and edited bygd Toni Morrison in 1974, An Autobiography is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to he