Kings and Queens, Bishops, Knights and Pawns — Michael Brown

If you had the choice, what period of history would you want to visit? What sights, sounds and smells would you want to experience first-hand? Would it be the Tudors, with bloated King Henry VIII and his succession of ill-fated wives, would it be the intrigue and treason of the Gunpowder Plot or possibly the terrifying times of the Civil War when Englishman was pitched in battle against his fellow Englishman? Sam and Harry, our time-defying heroes experience the whole of British history from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Along with Sam and Harry we discover what it was like to stand on the deck of an English battleship facing the Spanish Armada, how it really felt to see the first steam-powered engines, what it was like prospecting for gold in the coloniesââ,¬Â¦ You will live along with Sam and Harry seeing historic events as they affect the everyday lives of the ordinary men, women and children of Britain. Every new event serves as a backdrop to many an adventurous experience for Sam and Harry, and the reader too.