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In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

Lady Somers is the first woman to head up the Ministry of Defence. She also has something to hide. C..

As head of Edinburgh’s CID Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all…but even h..

Nick is the most intriguing man Nella has met in a while. He's a 9 in the looks department (no one g..

1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days o..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

It's June 1897 and Kate is celebrating her eleventh birthday on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond ..

It was on a Sunday night in 1928 that Billy Hopkins made his first appearance. Billy's tenement home..

Sophie Rivers has left the turmoil of her inner-city college to take an MEd course at the University..

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1794...Returning to England Harry and James become embroiled in a vicious struggle between rival smu..

1793: the onset of Britain's conflict with Revolutionary France. Ex-captain turned privateer Harry L..