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

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

July 1942. Newlywed Bobby Atherton has barely had time to experience married life with her airman hu..

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

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

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

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

When Betty and her best friend Sally discover a baby tucked in a blanket amongst the rubble at the M..

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

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

London 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother J..

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

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..

London 1929. Torn between the love of his family life in London and a deathbed promise to an America..

York 1940. World War Two has arrived for the girls of the Rowntree's factory and with rationing crip..