Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

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

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

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

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

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

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

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

September 1940: World War II is raging but Isabel is finally able to escape her unhappy marriage whe..

Sylvia Joy and Pearl are preparing to compete in a major national ballroom competition - not easy in..

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

1937. Shy but determined Tilly Truscott leaves her Hampshire home to train as a nurse at the Royal C..

Blackpool 1903. When young Elisha loses her parents she clings to Primula Cottage - the only home he..

Audrey dreams of a life of adventure even as she plans for a future as a homemaker. But when an unex..

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

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

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

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

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

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

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

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

October 1940. When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Bli..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

1942. Determined to do her bit for the war effort Yorkshire lass Evie Sinclair leaves her island hom..

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

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts s..

London October 1940. Dot is finding her independence and takes a full-time role as an ARP warden. As..

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

It's August 1917 and WW1 continues to take a toll. The villagers of Dorcalon try to keep hope alive;..

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Will she find the strength to start again? When Jenny Gregory leaves wartime London for the quiet to..

1912. Fifteen-year-old Kate Truscott leaves her small Hampshire village to become a nursemaid to fiv..

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

January 1945. The end of the war at last feels within reach and the Rowntrees workers dream of retur..

The war to end all wars has come to an end and Nell Tanner is overjoyed to have her father home. But..

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

The Great War has ended but Jack's toffee factory struggles after years of sugar rations and its tro..

It is 1919 and Liverpool has been devastated by World War I. Sons husbands and fathers have been los..

Alice and Isaac have been close friends since childhood but their paths diverge when they discover t..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

1939. Norma is pregnant. And when the man who promised to marry her is arrested for murder she has o..

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

After the death of their parents sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whi..

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

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

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

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

London 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady..

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

The Second World War is finally over when Lola Brown meets Harry Riggs at a dance. It is love at fir..

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

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

Yorkshire 1915. Mary Cooper has worked at Stonedale Mill for many years and wants to contribute to ..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

Cliffehaven 1947. In the wake of heartbreaking loss Roisin Reilly makes a promise to her granddaught..

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

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

Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

Surrey 1940. Overhead the Battle of Britain rages. Below at the Poppy Factory disabled WWI veterans ..