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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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