Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

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

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

Northumberland 1909. When Shona Hardy's husband is lost at sea she finds herself alone in a village ..

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

Molly's life changes forever when her mother is killed in an accident. Although her beloved grandfa..

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

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

After her husband Jack is transported to Australia as a convict Hannah and her children are sent to ..

The truth is Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lan..

Heiress Tara Nankervis is beautiful yet pained. She is forced to share a devastating secret with her..

England is at war but nothing can ruin Esther Wynford's happiness at marrying Monty Grant. Their sho..

Mariah Bowes thinks that being alone and penniless is the worst thing that can happen to a woman unt..

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

Freddie Barcussy knows hardship and pain. His parents Annie and Levi are struggling to make ends mee..

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

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

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

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever..

For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..

Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lott..

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liver..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

It's 1937 and for sisters Lizzie and Milly Travis there's nothing quite like the thrill of the funfa..

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

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult but she is struggling more than ever to find t..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

Hitler's war is reaching out to affect every member of the Neyler family. Val Neyler driving an ambu..

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..

When Commander Martin Black is shot down over enemy territory and ends up in a POW camp his wife Ann..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Summer 1953. Hilary Napier's life is turned upside-down when Marianne a beautiful French woman knock..

Can she finally put herself first in order to find love? Peggy Cassidy is a milly working in the Bel..

Born into service 16-year-old Juliet Harper has always idolised her mother Agnes. But Agnes is haunt..

1875. Terrified that her life is in danger in her abusive marriage Emma flees to the safety of Night..

Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..

Nell Flynn is training to be a nurse and planning to marry her boyfriend when her mother dies leavin..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

Eleanor Saint loves helping in the community of her small mining town even though her snobbish grand..

It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices. May 1945 - VE Day. After battling agai..

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

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

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

It is 1913 and for orphans Megan and Hattie brought up in a convent in Leeds the time has come to ma..

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is hap..

Young Quinta Haig is struggling to make ends meet at Top Field with ailing mother Laura. Noah Bilton..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..

When Thomas Grant - one of the most eligible young men in London - proposes to Annabel Seaton she ca..

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

August 1939. When it becomes clear that war is about to break out twin sisters Dilys and Una Singleb..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

It’s 1943 and Peggy Reilly is at her best when the troubles of war come knocking at the door of Be..

Lake District 1942. Spring is in the air at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home. Beautiful Stella has bee..

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

Nell Goodman is a good daughter. Her job in the local brewery is the only thing keeping her and her ..

After the death of her parents in a bombing raid Mary Jones discovers a secret in her father’s dia..

When Betty and her best friend Sally discover a baby tucked in a blanket amongst the rubble at the M..

It is 1942 and England is at war. Mary Jones has just celebrated her 18th birthday and said goodbye ..

A dismal cottage in the heart of Bolton Lancashire has been Sally's prison since Joseph Goden 'bough..

Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address so when she needs to join the library she c..

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..

Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..

Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies - she makes a living by taking in unwanted c..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share which is set high up in the limestone escar..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

Blackpool 1918. _x000D_Martha is 17 and alone in the world. Of Irish decent her flashing green eyes..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..