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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

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

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 ..

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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