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

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

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

As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children the..

It’s 1925 and Kate Cameron is just sixteen when she’s taken on at a shipyard on the Clyde. Kateâ..

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

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..

London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..

After Ruth Dixon's mother deserts her on Christmas Eve her father comes home drunk and commits an un..

When Jennifer Tucker arrives in the sleepy Devonshire village of Burracombe she's searching for more..

Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..

When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket Ava..

Marianne seems to have everything. She is married to a handsome Naval officer Neil Sheridan. They ha..

When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career she i..

Jessica is grieving for her beloved father Jacob Kingdom a trawler owner fondly remembered by his cr..

Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..

Eliza Wild has come a long way from her hungry childhood days in a rented miner's cottage on Pit Lan..

Margate 1786: Dairymaid Molly Goodchild feels trapped by her circumstances. But she has a friend in ..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

Kate Channer is settled in London helping her half-sister Naomi as housekeeper while the Great War r..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

Deal Kent 1817: In Deal's narrow alleyways amid the gloomy counting houses and muttering inns Louisa..

Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..

1915. Irene Maggie and Annie are proud members of the newly renamed Women's Police Service. While Br..

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

The Second World War has finally come to a close. Rachel Booker's husband has returned and the famil..

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

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

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

When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..

Stratford 1939: Britain is at war but on the home front keeping up morale and appearances go hand in..

The O'Neils who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over the..