DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but she has more tolerance for her hippy neighbou..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

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

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

Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three ..

Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

When Rachel Booker’s father dies deep in debt her mother must harden herself to make ends meet. Mo..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London’s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destr..

In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..

Britain is at war and May Lynch loves the life she’s leading as a pilot and poster girl for the Ai..

It is 1942 and England is at war. Mary Jones has just celebrated her 18th birthday and said goodbye ..