Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie Uncle Perce and two boy cousins within a stone's thro..

Yorkshire 1915. Mary Cooper has worked at Stonedale Mill for many years and wants to contribute to ..

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

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

Living on the edge of the beautiful Norfolk Broads with her father the only ripple in Tess Delamere'..

Rosemary Palmer-Farr loves farming and animals and has spent much of her childhood at Bengairney Far..

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

May 1943. The tide of war has turned at last with an Allied victory looking increasingly certain but..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

Christmas 1945. The war is over but the Nightingale Hospital still bears the scars. Matron Kathleen ..

In the years following the end of World War II life at the Glens of Lochandee is tough. Many familie..

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

Young Jeanette Walker often wonders what became of her mother who disappeared without trace during a..

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

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

When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action she brings up their young dau..

Poplar London 1920. Fourteen-year-old Victoria Keats is horrified when her father demands that she g..

It is 1931 and once again Europe is heading towards disaster. Life must go on however and a new gene..

1930 the Isle of Dogs. Young Lily Bright works long hours on a market stall selling furniture and b..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

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

After the death of her mother during childbirth Beth is left to care for her father and two older br..

As war rages across Europe in Dundee the Neill family continues to face challenges and hardships. Ro..

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

Is love just an illusion? To the outside Clare has everything: a beautiful home a devoted husband an..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

Orphaned Eliza Dunlop has been working as a companion to a rich but cantankerous old lady Miss Grego..

On New Year's Day 1925 Ivy Rose Murphy awakes to find her world changed forever. Her irresponsible D..

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..

London 1914. While young men enlist up and down the country the Nightingale Hospital has its own set..

As World War One begins no family including the Neylers will be left untouched and by the time the w..

1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..

It is March 1950 and Honey Brown marries the farmer she adores - August Blake Esq. With her mother-i..

The war to end all wars has come to an end and Nell Tanner is overjoyed to have her father home. But..

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

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

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

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

As the war continues to keep her family far away Peggy Reilly must continue to look after her girls ..

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

August 1944. Allied troops are fighting their way across Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a ..

1937. Shy but determined Tilly Truscott leaves her Hampshire home to train as a nurse at the Royal C..

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

Cornwall 1793. As the French Revolution threatens the stability of England so too is discontent brew..

Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..

Edinburgh Yuletide 1743. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard Ro..

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

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

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

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

The Lake District 1908.It seems as though Livia Ella and Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large..

Sally who married young to escape her appalling childhood is often left to bitterly reflect on the h..

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

1901. Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family while Edward grew up with an abus..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

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

Susan Cahill enjoys her job at the BBC until a bomb destroys the building and brings a new boss Walt..

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

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall wrecking ships a..

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

1935: As the Depression bites beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in ..

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

Monica Eustace and Joan McDonald met as next-door-neighbours living in Mersey View in Liverpool. Tho..

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

Alice an upper-class Londoner is recruited into the Special Operations Executive and sent to Paris w..

When Rachel Booker’s father dies deep in debt her mother must harden herself to make ends meet. Mo..

The South Wales village of Hen Carw Parc is a haven of rural peace. But times are changing and altho..

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

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

East Kent 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a conten..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

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

Canterbury 1853. Agnes Berry-Clay might have been born into rags but she is growing up with riches. ..

When Nell Draper leaves the workhouse to care for the five-year-old son of Lord Eversham a wealthy l..

February 1945. When April Green's father is killed by a bomb life without him is hard to bear. April..

An impetuous decision to marry has left the young Lady Caroline widowed and with two estates in her ..

A heart-breaking choice between love and duty...York 1886. Sarah-Lou has just left school and is re..

Annie Swinburn had killed a man - the killing was well-deserved for Francis Morton had been evil in ..

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

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