On the eve of the First World War carpenter Tom Munday is content with his lot: he's been blessed wi..

In 1898 three young girls leave a Dublin orphanage to enter a life of domestic service. They are pla..

Emma Greig has seen little of the world when she leaves school to become a maid at Bonnybrae Farm. T..

Between work and home life there's plenty to keep Flo occupied. Not least new deputy store manager H..

Jessie Price has travelled the drovers' roads from South Wales to London's Smithfield Market and bec..

1916 Mesopotamia. The Turks order prisoners from the siege of Kut to march the hundreds of miles to ..

1915. After the recent dramatic events at the Post Office's Home Depot Milly Woods is looking forwar..

Kent 1816. Now Molly Dawson's family have grown up and left home she has every reason to expect that..

On duty during London's Blitz.....

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

1864. Following the untimely death of her cold-hearted husband Beatrix and her three children are fi..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

January 1945 West London: Sylvia Simpson has become an invaluable member of the Marigold's crew - bu..

Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..