Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of hull. Her adored father travelled often to the..

As the Houses of York and Lancaster clash young Elizabeth Sheldyke is married off to the ageing mast..

Hugo Kendal and his wife Margaret finally receive a royal pardon and are permitted at last to return..

London May 1911. The new king George V is preparing for his coronation. The suffragettes are campaig..

1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..

Anna Grayson has been a dutiful daughter her whole life but her world is transformed when she meets ..

Cécile Bellange is a worried mother. Her 18-year-old daughter Annabelle and her friend Dorothée le..

July 1585. Desperate to escape Sir Francis Walsingham’s clutches and pursue his chosen career as a..

July 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College the school for e..

The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash an American flier who after being shot do..

Anthony Trollope finds the beautiful city of Barchester idyllic on visiting it for the first time. T..

It’s 1925 and Kate Cameron is just sixteen when she’s taken on at a shipyard on the Clyde. Kateâ..

It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in An..

A loving and hard-working child Emily goes into service when she is twelve at the house of Roger Fra..

For Amelia and her siblings the grim past which their mother Emily had endured seemed very far away...