August 1918. World War I is entering its final stages. A generation of young men have given up their..

In 1875 railwayman Tom Swales with his wife and five daughters takes the tiny end cottage in a terra..

During the Great Depression like many others in Dundee the Neill family are struggling to make ends ..

1941 the Isle of Dogs. Neglected by their drunken mother young Bella Doyle and her brother Terry ar..

Mariah Bowes thinks that being alone and penniless is the worst thing that can happen to a woman unt..

Sophie and Rosa Moran are born into a working-class family struggling to rise above poverty. Their ..

A heart-breaking choice between love and duty...York 1886. Sarah-Lou has just left school and is re..

Lottie is just three years old when her mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse; only thirteen w..

Everyone is worn down by the war which has been raging for five long years but five-year-old evacuee..

Sally who married young to escape her appalling childhood is often left to bitterly reflect on the h..

The market town of Everham is full of rumours and counter-rumours. Dr Leigh McDowall medical registr..

It's 1944 and three very different women join a touring variety group and travel through Europe perf..

It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. She travels to the Somme w..

Moments after she is born Tessa Barcussy is branded as 'trouble'. The day she is born her father Fre..

Joanna Ryan's father has gone off to war leaving her in the care of her step-mother a woman more con..