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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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