Liverpool 1940. When war comes to Britain Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity t..

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

We take summer holidays for granted but back in the 1940s war had gripped Britain. Bombs fell beache..

No turkey. No fruit to make a decent pudding. No money for presents. Your children away from home; y..

After joining the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent ..

Ardnish 1944. On his deathbed Donald John Gillies sends for a priest to hear his last confession. Wa..

Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..

1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

After the death of leading haematologist Professor Anstruther antiquarian book dealer Anthony Sparro..

1862. Growing up in a small seaside town on the Isle of Wight free-spirited Eveline Stanhope feels t..

Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its w..

London 1929. In the darkness before dawn a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unload..

Cornwall 1891. Talented painter Edith Fairchild is poised to begin a life of newlywed bliss and arti..