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

Eliza Wild has come a long way from her hungry childhood days in a rented miner's cottage on Pit Lan..

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..

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

Margate 1786: Dairymaid Molly Goodchild feels trapped by her circumstances. But she has a friend in ..

1915. Irene Maggie and Annie are proud members of the newly renamed Women's Police Service. While Br..

London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..

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

After Ruth Dixon's mother deserts her on Christmas Eve her father comes home drunk and commits an un..

Deal Kent 1817: In Deal's narrow alleyways amid the gloomy counting houses and muttering inns Louisa..

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

Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..

When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career she i..

Kate Channer is settled in London helping her half-sister Naomi as housekeeper while the Great War r..

The O'Neils who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over the..

Jessica is grieving for her beloved father Jacob Kingdom a trawler owner fondly remembered by his cr..

Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..

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

It’s 1925 and Kate Cameron is just sixteen when she’s taken on at a shipyard on the Clyde. Kateâ..

The Second World War has finally come to a close. Rachel Booker's husband has returned and the famil..

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

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