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

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

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

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

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

Sally Travis appeared to have been badly let down by Rhys Martin who had gone away to college when u..

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

Young Jeanette Walker often wonders what became of her mother who disappeared without trace during a..

Yorkshire 1915. Mary Cooper has worked at Stonedale Mill for many years and wants to contribute to ..

1941 the Isle of Dogs. Neglected by their drunken mother young Bella Doyle and her brother Terry ar..

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

Nothing can change her love for her son Gloria and Joe were the golden couple until tragedy left..

They're about to follow their dreams all the way back home... Sam Newby loves the rolling hills and ..

When Lucy's estranged mother dies unexpectedly her grief is overwhelming. Lucy was disowned when she..

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

In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

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

1930 the Isle of Dogs. Young Lily Bright works long hours on a market stall selling furniture and b..

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

In the dark days following the Blitz young Pearl Jenkins finds happiness as she celebrates her marri..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow’s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep..

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

17-year-old Alice Tozer comes as a maid to the Tozers' farm in Burracombe in the spring of 1918. She..

An impetuous decision to marry has left the young Lady Caroline widowed and with two estates in her ..

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

On Easter day in 1918 Frances Kemp looked out at the little thatched village and promised that one d..

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

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..

In September 1940 the Isle of Dogs suffers the first terrible night of a nine-month Blitz. Amidst th..

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

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

In 1871 young Daisy Fraser is living in the Yorkshire Dales with her beloved family. Her sister Kitt..

March 1915. Caroline Lilley's fiancé Reggie is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and ..

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

October 1940. When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Bli..

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..

The Lake District 1908.It seems as though Livia Ella and Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large..

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

Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..

Headmaster Theodore Quinn has lived in Liverpool since coming over from America to fight for Britain..

1934. Talented eighteen-year-old dancer Bonny Burton joins the chorus at Southampton's Palace of Var..

Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker a pub two rows of terraced working class homes and at one end the ..

Rosie's family doesn't have much money but she's rich in other ways and when Danny Walsh asks her to..

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

What possible connections might exist between an aged man who used to sell shoes some ladies of the ..

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

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

At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

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

Edinburgh Yuletide 1743. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard Ro..

A new generation of the Maxwell family are farming at Wester Rullion during the 1980s. Young Paul Ma..

Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy Henshaw decides she i..

Claudia Muldoon and her sister Jenny live with their parents and their gran in her house in Blodwen ..

In 1955 Scotland Road residents fear for their futures when government plans threaten to demolish th..

The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..

It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister Connie marry the man of her dreams Carrie ..

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

Two years have passed since Livia and her sisters suffered at the hands of their brutal father and a..

Britain is at war and Ruth a gifted pilot is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Over in..

With her mother dead her crippled father a broken and bitter man and her elder brother deeply in deb..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

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

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

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

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

Winter 1919 Two months after the Armistice that ended the Great War and life in London's East End is..

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of hull. Her adored father travelled often to the..

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

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

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

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

1890 Western Australia. 14-year-old Sarette Maitland is orphaned when her father dies of a snake bit..

Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..

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

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

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

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

1928 The Isle of Dogs. When her sailor husband goes missing presumed drowned Eve Kumar struggles to ..

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

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

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