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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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