It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children the..

1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..

1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..

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

Liverpool 1940. When war comes to Britain Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity t..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane surr..

Oxford Street London 1915Sally Harper quietly battles to keep Harpers afloat in the difficult days o..

Nell Flynn is training to be a nurse and planning to marry her boyfriend when her mother dies leavin..

Stratford 1939: Britain is at war but on the home front keeping up morale and appearances go hand in..

Christmas Eve 1909. When eleven-year-old Lily Larkin is left to fend for herself in an East London w..

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..