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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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