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

Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts s..

Wales 1943. Sara Lewis should be heartbroken when her husband doesn't return from war. But he was ne..

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

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

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

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

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

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

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

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

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

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