When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

Sheffield 1867. It's the height of a long-running and violent campaign known as the Outrages where m..

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

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

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

1916. East London. When 16-year-old Clover Cooper's mother Iris calls her home from work one day the..

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

Grace and Dougie have been courting for years so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he exp..

Born into poverty and hardship Ruby Skinner's decision to approach the unscrupulous East End villain..

November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..

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

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

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

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

Somerset 1911. Miner's wife Lorna Harrison sometimes wonders what became of her marriage. Her husban..

In February 1944 the girls of the Air Transport Auxiliary Mystery Club face the devastating personal..

Determined not to waste his life toiling for his cruel brother Silas arrives in town to seek his for..

Cliffehaven 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are fin..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

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

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

1912. Fifteen-year-old Kate Truscott leaves her small Hampshire village to become a nursemaid to fiv..

Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

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

After the death of their parents sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whi..

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

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

As 1954 draws to an end the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creepin..

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

Growing up without the care of a loving family made Anna Golding fiercely independent. So when war b..

From the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls comes the second heartfelt installment in Mary ..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

Fiercely independent Marguerite Sinclair has the opportunity of a lifetime to become a nurse and con..

Clydebank 1911. Ellen works at the Sewing Machine factory. So does her sister Bridget Bridget's fian..

When Angie marries her sweetheart Quentin and moves into Cuthford Manor to begin their new life toge..

Wolsingham 1900. After the death of their parents Connie Dom Leo and Pearl find themselves all alone..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

1922. After the horrors of the Great War the close-knit Truscott family returns to everyday life on ..

Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

The South Wales village of Hen Carw Parc is a haven of rural peace. But times are changing and altho..

Naomi is fighting to free herself from Alexander Harrington who married her for her money and kept a..

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

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

'See that patch of blue sky' he said. 'Whenever you see one that's where I'll be - thinking of you.'..

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..

The eldest of three children Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the mate..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Cornwall 1930. Bertie Fox has had her dreams of motorcycle racing cut short by a life-changing accid..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..

As Liverpool and its residents begin to heal from the wounds and memories of World War I life on Wea..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

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

Blackpool 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty but their fortunes have yet to turn. Blis..

After two years Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker ..

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

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

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

1813. Meg Marsh will do anything to keep a roof over her family's head - even getting involved in a ..

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

Still grieving the death of her watchman husband in a terrorist attack during the Outrages factory w..

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

England 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys ..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

1942. Determined to do her bit for the war effort Yorkshire lass Evie Sinclair leaves her island hom..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..