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

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..

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

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

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

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

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

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

1911 Bath. Passionate suffrage campaigner Esther Stanbury works as a window dresser in Pennington's ..

For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

Laura Cannock is on the run suspected of killing her bullying husband and his family are out for rev..

Cornwall 1798. Eighteen months have passed since Midshipman Edmund Melville was declared missing pr..

Cornwall 1929. Fiona Fox youngest child of the celebrated Fox family is a devoted volunteer at the l..

Ever since the death of her beloved husband Peter Caroline's life in Bath has not been the same. Fri..

She had the voice of an angel...but it led her to sin A miner's daughter from the village of Annsdal..

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

Deploring social injustice Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency concealing the fact that she'..

1920s. When her father dies Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position tak..

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

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

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family so when she blossoms ..

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

Lily and Vincent have been dancing everything from the waltz to the foxtrot together since they were..

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

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

Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..

It is 1939 and war is looming on the horizon but for nine-year-old Maisie Jackson abused by her crue..

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

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

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

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

Christmas Eve 1936. On a foggy December night a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus a..

Bath 1912. When Miss Pennington sends Amelia Wakefield to study the department stores of New York sh..

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

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

Christmas Eve 1909. When eleven-year-old Lily Larkin is left to fend for herself in an East London w..

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

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

Thrown together by tragic circumstances some years previously Meg and Clarrie's hard-won friendship ..

Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..

Andrew Sanderson brilliant surgeon and renowned musician is still grieving the death of his wife Mar..

A heart-breaking choice between love and duty...York 1886. Sarah-Lou has just left school and is re..

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

Christmas should be the happiest time but at Pennington’s dramas are seething beneath the surface...

East Kent 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a conten..

A poignant touching and epic tale of lost love set against the drama and danger of World War Two. 19..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

After her plans to elope with her married lover fall through Rachel Kivell is broken-hearted and sad..

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..

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

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

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

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

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

Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..

Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find them..

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

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

Maureen Matthews has always been a 'deep one' with her head in the clouds and secrets in her heart. ..

When Carrie Chapman signs up to be an ambulance attendant at the outbreak of World War Two she has l..

When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and..

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

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

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

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..

London 1914. While young men enlist up and down the country the Nightingale Hospital has its own set..

When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

The war is over but peace hasn't quite settled between newly-reunited sisters Babs and Beth. Tilly a..

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

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

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

It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. She travels to the Somme w..

After losing all her family in the Great War Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert. However five ye..