Educated beautiful and the daughter of a prosperous merchant Angelica Lilly has been invited to spen..

It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liver..

The Tsar's Dragons series follows the epic tale of nineteenth-century industrialist John Hughes who ..

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

January 1936. Sarah a young executive at a Yorkshire mill returns home to attend her grandfather's f..

London 1912. Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pi..

Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..

Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address so when she needs to join the library she c..

Cornwall 1793. As the French Revolution threatens the stability of England so too is discontent brew..

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

Born into service 16-year-old Juliet Harper has always idolised her mother Agnes. But Agnes is haunt..

As World War One begins no family including the Neylers will be left untouched and by the time the w..

Liverpool 1958: Nursery nurse Irene Miller falls for her friend Peggy's handsome older brother Marty..

The village of Burracombe is looking forward to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II but the year of..

1950. After her marriage went badly wrong Dolly Taylor returned to Rotherhithe from America. She is ..

A seemingly sleepy Devonshire village Burracombe is in fact full of intrigue and drama. Family secre..

Summer 1953. Hilary Napier's life is turned upside-down when Marianne a beautiful French woman knock..

It is 1931 and once again Europe is heading towards disaster. Life must go on however and a new gene..

Christmas 1945. The war is over but the Nightingale Hospital still bears the scars. Matron Kathleen ..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

Scotland 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extr..

The truth is Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lan..

1940 London. Sheila Phipps is orphaned after a devastating air raid claims her family and her home. ..

Christmas 1941 and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet. With shortage..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

It's been a long hard winter in Burracombe. At Burracombe Barton Hilary Napier is doing her best to ..

In the aftermath of the Second World War two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie ..

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

Is love just an illusion? To the outside Clare has everything: a beautiful home a devoted husband an..

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

When Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age he began by inviting Welsh bus..

To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital the ward sisters are heartless and frightening wit..

Nell Goodman is a good daughter. Her job in the local brewery is the only thing keeping her and her ..

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

Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy Henshaw decides she i..

Addy and Prue Fairweather live with their widowed mother Nell in a flat above her shop. Addy is plai..

Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow Hill workhouse. She now..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

1939: The unexpected death of Sandra Anderson dramatically and ruthlessly changes forever the lives ..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

1901. Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family while Edward grew up with an abus..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

1916 Mesopotamia. The Turks order prisoners from the siege of Kut to march the hundreds of miles to ..

Andrew Sanderson brilliant surgeon and renowned musician is still grieving the death of his wife Mar..

England is at war but nothing can ruin Esther Wynford's happiness at marrying Monty Grant. Their sho..

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

Living on the edge of the beautiful Norfolk Broads with her father the only ripple in Tess Delamere'..

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

1501 Plymouth Devon. Luke Kendal the long awaited son of Elizabeth and John grows up under the lovin..

Welcome to the district nurses? home on Steeple Street where everyone has a secret?Ambitious young n..

1916. East London. When 16-year-old Clover Cooper's mother Iris calls her home from work one day the..

Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

August 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother?s Blackpool boarding house before ..

As war looms in Europe 18-year-old Jane Shaw runs the household as an unpaid servant on a meagre bud..

It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices. May 1945 - VE Day. After battling agai..

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

Wanting to support her family through the depression in 1930s Glasgow Jean Logan is seduced by the g..

As the war takes its toll the Nightingale nurses must do their bit for king and country?Dora is the ..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

Liz MacMillan has wanted to be a nurse ever since her baby brother died of scarlet fever but her dom..

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie Uncle Perce and two boy cousins within a stone's thro..

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..

In the backstreets of Liverpool Eileen Watson lives with her mother Nellie daughter Mel and her thre..

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

Following heavy casualties General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Ama..

Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

Cornwall: 1793. Rose Pengelly's father has been ruined - he has lost his boat yard and his fortune p..

1939. The threat of war is looming over Blackpool but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it..

It?s January 1955 and for the residents of Meadow Lane a small community of seven terraced houses ea..

While her mother is at home giving birth eleven-year-old Isa must look after her younger siblings bu..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..