In the aftermath of the General Strike times are tough for coal miners and their families. When Call..

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

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

Norfolk 1940. As war rages on the residents of Great Plumstead are doing all they can to help the wa..

Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly with her shrewd ey..

London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

Laura Cannock is on the run suspected of killing her bullying husband and his family are out for rev..

1916. Poppy is being transferred to an enormous new munitions complex in Gretna on the Scottish bord..

Still grieving the death of her watchman husband in a terrorist attack during the Outrages factory w..

A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a j..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..

Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..

Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..