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

East London. War rages on but for the Nightingale nurses wedding bells are ringing...Anna is over th..

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

March 1940. Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one will know the t..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

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

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

When her feisty grandmama takes her travelling Prue is excited to explore outside of England. Determ..

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

Lou Channer wants a life outside of North Devon somewhere she's never left. She yearns to contribute..

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

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

1915. Beth Healey hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate her 18th birth..

London 1943. Dot Hanson has never forgotten the thrill of seeing the beautiful Christmas displays at..

Yorkshire Dales 1850. As a terrible storm rages Annabelle Wallis is shocked to find a distressed you..

Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..

Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

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

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

White Waltham 1943. As Italy surrenders and victory looms on the horizon Ellie's doing what she does..

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

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..

West Yorkshire 1914. Newly married to Noah Jackson Beth is happily content working on her family's m..

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

With the approach of war about to bring heartache to families all over England Elsie Mead longs to d..

The Great War is over and Millie is ready to leave her loving family home and be a wife to Jeremy. B..

Lady Joanna Harcourt and her daughter Sarah discover their life of luxury at Goodwill House is over...

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

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

1939. When the man Georgie has always loved is sent to France on a secret mission every knock of the..

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

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

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

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..

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

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

Bristol - 1945The war has ended; the men are returning home to their loved ones but for some things ..

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

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

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

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

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

After being orphaned as a child Mary is taken in by her mother?s friend - and ex-prostitute - Nell. ..

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

May 1940.There are new residents at Goodwill House - WAAF drivers Camilla 'Millie' Cunningham and Di..

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

August 1940As Autumn approaches Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House -..

Cambridgeshire - 1941_x000D_As the war rages on in Europe it brings untold heartache to the Talbot f..

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

Cece is gifted a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't want a cottage or to go to Scotland...

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

When Lady Helen Hardingham?s parents say she will never find a better husband than Richard she agree..

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

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

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

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

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

London 1942: Flo Canning's heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading sinc..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

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

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

1944. With deadly doodlebugs terrorising London Bessie Rushbrook agrees to give shelter to eight-yea..

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

1940 London. Sheila Phipps is orphaned after a devastating air raid claims her family and her home. ..

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

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..

Liverpool 1953.January sees the dawn of the Queen Elizabeth's Coronation year as the mothers of Reck..

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

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

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

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

London 1958Life has moved on since the war and the youngsters of Mulberry Lane are growing up fast.P..

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

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

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

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

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

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..