Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

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

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

As the Great War rages Jack's toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham is threa..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

1939. The threat of war is looming over Blackpool but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it..

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

London 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

May 1910. The village of Oystertown is home to those who make their living from the sea. Yet social ..

London October 1940. Dot is finding her independence and takes a full-time role as an ARP warden. As..