Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..
Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..
Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..
London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..
Manchester 1941. When Cordelia’s daughter arrives home unexpectedly she can't wait to introduce he..
When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..
The close loving family life Rose has known is shattered when the country goes to war. Rose resolves..
London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..
Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..
Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..
Having recently arrived in England abandoned by her father and brother Isabella is left to look afte..
Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..
In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..
Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..
It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..
October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..
Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father a small-time crook has an ulterior moti..
Summer 1942. Britain is in the depths of war and the Women's Land Army is hard at work looking after..
Can she finally put herself first in order to find love? Peggy Cassidy is a milly working in the Bel..
Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..
As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..
Bobbie Fraser Mary Holland and Jean Thornton are Atta Girls - part of the Air Transport Auxiliary te..
Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..
1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death. Determined to make her own way in the worl..
Sunderland 1943. Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feel..
Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..
June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..
Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..
Stratford 1939: Britain is at war but on the home front keeping up morale and appearances go hand in..
Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..
Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..
December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..
Wales 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother Nellie Rhia..
It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..
When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..
Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..
Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..
September 1942 Having done her duty as an ATS girl Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new chall..
Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..
After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..
Sunderland 1944. As the promise of victory draws closer this Christmas will surely be one to remembe..
Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..
Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..
When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..
March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..
Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..
Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..
His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..
In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..
In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..
A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..
1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..
It's 1941 and as the Second World War rages on girls from all over the country are signing up to the..
1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..
1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..
Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is ..
Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..
Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..
Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..
Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..
1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..
1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..
Christmas Eve 1936. On a foggy December night a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus a..
London 1942. Charlotte Fenimore is back home on a week's leave from the Women's Auxiliary Airforce. ..
London 1942: Flo Canning's heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading sinc..
The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..
Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..
March 1940. Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one will know the t..
For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..
When her feisty grandmama takes her travelling Prue is excited to explore outside of England. Determ..
Manchester 1942. A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison's romance with Dr Maitland..
In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..
Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..
Stratford 1943. World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls the workers ..
Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..
Margate 1884. When 17-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home she never dreamed she'd find her ..
Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..
Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..
Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..
York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...
Kent 1814. Molly Dawson now a respectable married woman lives with her husband and three daughters o..
Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..
Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever..