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..

When 16-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead o..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

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

September 1942. Mary arrives in London to take up a new post as a fabric-cutter at Liberty's Carnaby..

April 1942. New mother Alice Milwood is itching to return to her job as a shop assistant at Libertyâ..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

The Crying Game opens in 1944 and tells the story of Trixie - a girl who has only ever known turmoil..

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

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

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..