Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..

1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..

For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear ..

1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..

In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..

March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..

June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly’s sister Doris must seek..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

August 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boarding house befor..

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..