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

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

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

A little girl is found abandoned on a beach one chilly Monday in October alone apart from the body o..

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

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

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

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

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

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

Hampshire 1940. Ellie Simpson is attached to an Air Transport Auxiliary base in Hampshire. Life as a..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

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

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

When war broke out 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk where s..

With Mulberry Lane's favourite pub The Pig & Whistle undergoing renovation proprietors Peggy and Abl..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

1942. The ATA is calling upon its most trusted pilots to deliver precious bombers wherever they're n..

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

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

White Waltham 1943. As Italy surrenders and victory looms on the horizon Ellie's doing what she does..

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

Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..

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

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

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

After losing all her family in the Great War Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert. However five ye..

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

1939. When the man Georgie has always loved is sent to France on a secret mission every knock of the..

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

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

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

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

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

Cece is gifted a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't want a cottage or to go to Scotland...

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

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

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

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

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

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

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

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

Christmas time is fast approaching at Mary Vale and newcomer Libby is ready to start a fresh chapter..

LONDON 1917. As the Americans enter the War there is renewed energy in the war effort. With husbands..

1961. Lucia once dreamed of a man who would love her. She has lost hope because what man would when ..

On the day that her youngest child leaves home Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a mat..

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

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

It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..

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

As war approaches Alice Edith and Marg fear for the safety of their families while trying to decide ..

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

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

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

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

Mary Jenkins has every reason to be proud; from humble beginnings she has risen to become the overse..

For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

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

1944. With deadly doodlebugs terrorising London Bessie Rushbrook agrees to give shelter to eight-yea..

It's 1937 and for sisters Lizzie and Milly Travis there's nothing quite like the thrill of the funfa..

Lake District 1942. Spring is in the air at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home. Beautiful Stella has bee..

December 1938. Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolu..

Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over 20 years the wives of fishermen in ..

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

Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..

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

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

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

1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..

Having been recently widowed in her forties shy Jane Redfern finally plucks up the courage to go on ..

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..

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

Manchester 1867. Mara longs for a peaceful life free of violence and poverty. But she has married in..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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