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

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

Born into poverty and hardship Ruby Skinner's decision to approach the unscrupulous East End villain..

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

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

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

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

As 1954 draws to an end the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creepin..

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

January 1941 As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter land girl Charlie Somit..

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

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

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

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

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