When her beloved mistress dies lady's maid Phoebe Parsons is forced onto the poverty-ridden streets ..

May 1941. Three young women join the war effort during the Yorkshire Blitz. Connie an ARP warden per..

Norfolk 1940. As war rages on the residents of Great Plumstead are doing all they can to help the wa..

Kent 1816. Now Molly Dawson's family have grown up and left home she has every reason to expect that..

East London 1915. While the man she loves is away fighting Lily Larkin wakes up at dawn to carry cra..

London 1914. Sick and injured servicemen are returning home and Lizzie Kellaway and her godmother Ma..

Jessie Price has travelled the drovers' roads from South Wales to London's Smithfield Market and bec..

1931 Cornwall. Gwenna Rosdew had no choice but to step up as head of the family after her father was..

Margaret Beaufort was rich beautiful and just 13 years of age when she discovered that she carried t..

Charlotte knew nothing of her parents except that they'd died when she was a child. And when her aun..

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry run by Siona Llewelyn the kindly yet r..

Mary Jenkins has every reason to be proud; from humble beginnings she has risen to become the overse..

When her grandmother dies Catherine Llewellyn finds herself alone in the world. Her inheritance is a..

Lancashire 1940. Janie and her husband James have a strong loving marriage. A move from an inner-cit..

Meg just wants to keep her family together. Her mother is desperately ill and her sister is still in..