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

When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

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

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

1915. After the recent dramatic events at the Post Office's Home Depot Milly Woods is looking forwar..

After a family tragedy Janey Carhart was forced from her comfortable life as a captain’s daughter ..

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

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

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is hap..

Devon 1918. When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the..

When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - re..

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

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

Sylvia Joy and Pearl are preparing to compete in a major national ballroom competition - not easy in..