Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly with her shrewd ey..

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

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

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

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

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

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

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

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

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..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

They're about to follow their dreams all the way back home... Sam Newby loves the rolling hills and ..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..