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

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

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

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

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

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

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

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

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

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

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

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

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

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau Lorcan ..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

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

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

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

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

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..

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

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

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

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

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

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

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

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

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

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

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

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

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

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

Georgina Corrigan is worried. The first women sent to her Percy Place home by the BOBs - an organisa..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

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

Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prov..

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

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

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

The truth is Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lan..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

1945 Sunderland. Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as..

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

1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..

October 1941. Despite the hardships of life during wartime Bobby Bancroft has never been happier. En..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

1931 Cornwall. Gwenna Rosdew had no choice but to step up as head of the family after her father was..

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

The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..

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

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

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

Kent 1828. Lizzie Carey of Castle Bay is trapped in a life she never chose - endless days of cooking..

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

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..

Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..

October 1941. Marianne Fordham has a lot to cope with. As well as taking care of her young daughter ..

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

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

Liverpool 1847. At 17 Delilah Shaw is the eldest of the eight Shaw siblings and the one who must tak..

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

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

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

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

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

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

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

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

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

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

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

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

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

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

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

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

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

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

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