Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

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

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

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

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

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