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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They're about to follow their dreams all the way back home... Sam Newby loves the rolling hills and ..

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

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

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