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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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