January 1941 As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter land girl Charlie Somit..

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

Spring 1919. WW1 might be over but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the p..

July 1916. In the Rhymney Valley young mother Violet Jones is caring for four-year-old Clarice and b..

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

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

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother a famous French impressionist painter in ..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

1940 London. The Ten Bells Street girls best friends from childhood now find themselves surviving th..

It's 1937 and for sisters Lizzie and Milly Travis there's nothing quite like the thrill of the funfa..

1851. After her husband saved her from a life of prostitution Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a hou..

After two years Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker ..

Dolly Perkins and Jack Larkin have grown up in the notorious gin palaces of Birmingham. It’s a wor..