1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Manchester 1922. Nancy Pike is out of her depth. A pupil at the Miss Heskeths' school for surplus gi..

1933. Tesa and Frederica Nicolson enjoy one last idyllic summer at the beautiful Villa Millefiore ov..

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

Slung out from her home and onto the slum streets of Manchester at the tender age of twelve Perdita ..

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

William and Emma Sinclair have settled into life at Moorend Farm in North Yorkshire and live happily..

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

In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..

Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..

Hitler's war is reaching out to affect every member of the Neyler family. Val Neyler driving an ambu..

August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..

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

May 1943. The tide of war has turned at last with an Allied victory looking increasingly certain but..

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

In 1860’s Yorkshire a woman’s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentlem..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

Manchester 1942. A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison's romance with Dr Maitland..

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

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

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

Hull 1874. The beautiful Jewel Newmarch adopted as a baby turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic..

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..

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..

As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children the..

Charlotte is an only child reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he..

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

East Kent 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a conten..

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

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

1950. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Cliffe and her younger sister Eliza have the perfect lives wantin..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

When her mother dies in childbirth Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt Annie Grafton. Anni..

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

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

1860. Harriet is trying to care for her ill mother and has just lost her job. The last thing she exp..

Wales 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother Nellie Rhia..

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..

Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..

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

Rosa grew up an orphan in a remote island East coast of Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by the ..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

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

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

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

When Lucy's estranged mother dies unexpectedly her grief is overwhelming. Lucy was disowned when she..

Will Christmas bring an unexpected reunion? Frances O'Leary has always dreamed of being a dancer. Bu..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

1914. While their men fight in France at home in Britain women are finally seizing the opportunity t..

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

Sisters Alice and Annie have always been close but will a man come between them? Annie and Alice lov..

It is 1964 and fun-loving Rita has her dream job working as a nanny for a huge popstar and his famil..

Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..

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

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

The year is 1944 and in South Wales 17-year-old pit miner's daughter Rosa Edwards has just secured a..

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

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

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

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

Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End Jenny Mercer is frightened of the wide open spaces and t..

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put ..

Grace and Dougie have been courting for years so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he exp..