Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..

For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..

March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..

Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father a small-time crook has an ulterior moti..

Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..

Christmas Eve 1936. On a foggy December night a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus a..

Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

London 1942: Flo Canning's heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading sinc..

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

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

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

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

Margate 1884. When 17-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home she never dreamed she'd find her ..