'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..

In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..

Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..

Orphaned young Violet Wheeler has been brought up by her aunt - but when Winnie dies she feels she's..

Liverpool 1930. Reformed con-artist Leah Marshall has long yearned for the thrills of her former lif..

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

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

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

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

Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..

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

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

August 1944. Allied troops are fighting their way across Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a ..