In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

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

The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..

World-renowned war artist Dame Laura Knight is commissioned to paint propaganda portraits of factory..

Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community her ..

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

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

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

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

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

When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and..

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

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

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

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