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

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

London Spring 1920. Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sall..

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

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 ..

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

As the men fight and the war rages there are some new arrivals on the farm. . . Cambridgeshire - 194..

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

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

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

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..

After a family tragedy Janey Carhart was forced from her comfortable life as a captain?s daughter in..