Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

As World War II takes its toll on Liverpool only friendship and community can keep the women of Weav..

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

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..

1944. With deadly doodlebugs terrorising London Bessie Rushbrook agrees to give shelter to eight-yea..

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

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

When forest protests engulf a tiny Tasmanian timber town one family's century of secrets threatens t..

On the day that her youngest child leaves home Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a mat..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family so when she blossoms ..

Gosport 1941. The Bluebird Girls - Rainey Bird Bea Herron and Ivy Sparrow - are on their way to star..

Rationing bombing disease and pit disasters are part of Rose Kelly's World War 2 childhood. When the..

1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

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

Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

It's 1944. London's citizens are weary of air raids and rationing. But there are rumours of an invas..

Rose has a promising future stretching out before her until a cruel twist of fate seizes it. Will sh..

She's on trial for murder. . . Now it's her turn to tell her story. . . The truth is that I loved Ja..

July 1936. After an unexpected heartbreak and a nasty accident on a busy Liverpool street Lara Flynn..

Liverpool 1847. At 17 Delilah Shaw is the eldest of the eight Shaw siblings and the one who must tak..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

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

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

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

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

Oxford Street London 1915Sally Harper quietly battles to keep Harpers afloat in the difficult days o..

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

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

The Great War is over and Millie is ready to leave her loving family home and be a wife to Jeremy. B..

London 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother J..

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

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

Toby is the new owner of the old inn an unwitting keeper of its secrets. Then Meg Staley comes to Ca..

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

1944. Rosie Sinclair is proud to be doing her bit for the war effort as a driver at Cottisbourne Par..

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker a pub two rows of terraced working class homes and at one end the ..

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share which is set high up in the limestone escar..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

Cambridgeshire - March 1939As the clouds of war begin to gather in Europe the Talbot family of rural..

Three women came to the remote Cornish cottage that summer: Jenna only 26 and grieving for the loss ..

1864. Following the untimely death of her cold-hearted husband Beatrix and her three children are fi..

After falling pregnant unexpectedly 16-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father send..

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

1943 and The Bluebird Girls are at the top of their game. They are touring with ENSA visiting army b..

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

When Molly Holden’s husband Thomas is convicted of being a Luddite on the word of a secret informe..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

Tasmania 1929: Ten-year-old-twins Tom and Harry Abbott are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart ..

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

In the Middle East tension is escalating between the British and the Arabs. Misfit Lieutenant Harry ..

Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..

Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

Dora Fairweather wasn't cut out to be a wife and mother and as soon as she's able she turns her back..

Join the Marsh family again as they spend Christmas with Millie and Jeremy at Chateau Dumont. It's a..

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

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

Evacuated to the countryside she realises there are more dangers than German bombs in wartime… Can..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a ne..