It's June 1897 and Kate is celebrating her eleventh birthday on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond ..

It is 1945 and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends happy that at long..

Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But h..

When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae a small fishing village on the We..

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career. By 19..

Unimpressed by the world of debutante balls Monica Dickens shocked her family by getting a job. With..

Called up in 1940 Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead he found himself caught up in the fal..

On 3 May 1961 after a trial conducted largely in secret a man named George Blake was sentenced to an..

It's 1950 and when Laura and Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seve..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years ..

Brenda Ashford is 91 years old and spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny.Brenda began training a..

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an ..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..