White Waltham 1943. As Italy surrenders and victory looms on the horizon Ellie's doing what she does..

“The end of the old world” people said about the long hot summer of 1914. That summer Aunt Tilly..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

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..

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

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..

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

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..