In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

After her mother's death Dora is sent to live with her father and his other family. But Dora is mixe..

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

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

Needing to find a job Betty Dean is sent into service at Stowford House. The work is gruelling and h..

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

Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..

'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..