Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

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

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

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

Glasgow WW2. Despite being shy and reserved Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day wa..

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...

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..