1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water Derbyshire. Walter Ryan has returned home a broken man and so it falls ..

London has been ravaged by war for three years now and life couldn't be tougher for those living on ..

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

May 1910. The village of Oystertown is home to those who make their living from the sea. Yet social ..

February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London’s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destr..

Elsie Barker is desperate for a new start after her husband leaves her. When her friend Izzy - who n..

September 1940. As Luftwaffe bombs rain from the skies over London the women of Lavender Road are fi..

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

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

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

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

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

Eliza Wild has come a long way from her hungry childhood days in a rented miner's cottage on Pit Lan..