Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..

1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

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

'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..

January 1941 As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter land girl Charlie Somit..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie Uncle Perce and two boy cousins within a stone's thro..

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

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Life has always been tough for May and Gus Lavender. Their father went away to sea never to return a..

1940 London. The Ten Bells Street girls best friends from childhood now find themselves surviving th..

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