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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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