Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..
World-renowned war artist Dame Laura Knight is commissioned to paint propaganda portraits of factory..
Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..
When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and..
Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..
1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..
Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear ..
1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..
For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..
August 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boarding house befor..
Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..
Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..
It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..
In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..
It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..
May 1945. In post-war Leith the Anderson family must come to terms with the reality of peacetime Bri..
After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..
January 1945 West London: Sylvia Simpson has become an invaluable member of the Marigold's crew - bu..
Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..
The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..
In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..
Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community her ..
1925. Attractive and strong-willed 23-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to ..
Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..
A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..
1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..
June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly’s sister Doris must seek..
March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..
When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..