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

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

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

After her mother's death Dora is sent to live with her father and his other family. But Dora is mixe..

After being orphaned as a child Mary is taken in by her mother’s friend - and ex-prostitute - Nell..

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

Banished from her father's home wheelchair-bound Esther Kerral is horrified when he forces her into ..

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

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

Angelina was abandoned on the doorsteps of Brownlow Workhouse when she was just a baby. The only clu..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

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

1860. Harriet is trying to care for her ill mother and has just lost her job. The last thing she exp..

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

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