It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

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

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

17-year-old Alice Tozer comes as a maid to the Tozers' farm in Burracombe in the spring of 1918. She..

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

Despite her privileged upbringing Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She ..

Kent 1822. Fearing for his life Thomas Marsh has fled Castle Bay and found work as a mill hand deep ..

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

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

Bolton Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her pa..

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

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..