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

Glasgow WW2. Despite being shy and reserved Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day wa..

Sheffield 1867. It's the height of a long-running and violent campaign known as the Outrages where m..

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

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

Wales 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother Nellie Rhia..

After a traumatic past life finally seems to be looking up for Hanna Foster. But war is on its way ...

The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..

“She's not worth more than tuppence that child!” Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe...

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

It is 1942 and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham Maryann Bartholomew has built a happy li..

Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over 20 years the wives of fishermen in ..

West Yorkshire 1901. When Eli Simmonite takes in a heavily pregnant woman fleeing from peril he feel..

After the death of their parents sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whi..

Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..