June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

Grinding poverty and violence are on everyday part of life in Glasgow's slums during the 1920s. But ..

When her grandmother dies Catherine Llewellyn finds herself alone in the world. Her inheritance is a..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

Sophia Seddon and Grace Thompson are poles apart - one a member of the notorious Seddons of Plove..

1916. After Olivia Bone's romance with Lieutenant Lucas Black is cut short by his return to the fron..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

When Jennifer Tucker arrives in the sleepy Devonshire village of Burracombe she's searching for more..

As the drums of war begin to beat louder on the continent 17-year-old Jeannie McIver heads to the wi..

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

Shattered by the bitter end of a passionate affair Lizzie Wilde leaves her native north east to seek..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..

Manchester industrialist William Rose was a poor lad who pulled himself up by his bootstraps but in ..

It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in An..

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..

Eleanor Saint loves helping in the community of her small mining town even though her snobbish grand..

Seventeen-year-old Muriel Dearlove has weathered the Blitz unscathed earning her keep in Miss Chapma..

Cliffehaven 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are fin..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

The Pratchett family have to contend with coalman Alfie Pratchett's obsessive jealousy. A bully his ..

And head welder Rosie's little sister Charlotte has turned up unannounced. Why is she back and so se..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

After two years Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker ..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry run by Siona Llewelyn the kindly yet r..

England 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys ..

It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..

Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..

After the Second World War Ellen and her daughter Netta make the journey from Germany back to Scotla..

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

When the Gallachers received an invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to attend an evening at Lea Ha..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

Clydebank 1911. Ellen works at the Sewing Machine factory. So does her sister Bridget Bridget's fian..

The O'Neils who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over the..

When Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age he began by inviting Welsh bus..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult but she is struggling more than ever to find t..

1950. After her marriage went badly wrong Dolly Taylor returned to Rotherhithe from America. She is ..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother a famous French impressionist painter in ..

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

The Tsar's Dragons series follows the epic tale of nineteenth-century industrialist John Hughes who ..

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

Grace and Dougie have been courting for years so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he exp..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

December 1938. Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolu..

West Yorkshire 1901. When Eli Simmonite takes in a heavily pregnant woman fleeing from peril he feel..

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

Daisy Bacon has an ordinary happy life living with her family in South London until tragedy strikes ..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

As war approaches Alice Edith and Marg fear for the safety of their families while trying to decide ..

Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

It's 1944 and three very different women join a touring variety group and travel through Europe perf..

The war to end all wars has come to an end and Nell Tanner is overjoyed to have her father home. But..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

Sheffield 1867. It's the height of a long-running and violent campaign known as the Outrages where m..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

August 1918. World War I is entering its final stages. A generation of young men have given up their..

The Weston family have always pinned their hopes for creating a dynasty on their glamorous granddaug..