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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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