Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

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

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

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

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

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

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

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

Janet Scott loves books and learning and is happy living at the schoolhouse where her grandfather is..

Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..

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

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

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

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

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