Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

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

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

Kent 1822. Fearing for his life Thomas Marsh has fled Castle Bay and found work as a mill hand deep ..

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

Bolton Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her pa..

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

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

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

Manchester 1960. When you're young unmarried and pregnant in a shaming society that will never under..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

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