Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

Manchester 1922. Nancy Pike is out of her depth. A pupil at the Miss Heskeths' school for surplus gi..

December 1938. Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolu..

In the aftermath of the Second World War two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie ..

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..

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

When forest protests engulf a tiny Tasmanian timber town one family's century of secrets threatens t..

Manchester 1941. When Cordelia’s daughter arrives home unexpectedly she can't wait to introduce he..

Tasmania 1929: Ten-year-old-twins Tom and Harry Abbott are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart ..

Adam and Polly Fitch face a bleak future after being sold for just five shillings to Miss Reed's orp..

Dorset 1876. When young Beatrice Cullen shows up in the local church with her illegitimate child in ..

1937. Alice Edith and Marg face hardships every day growing up on one of the poorest streets in Blac..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea she is su..

From the ashes of the war can love blossom? Rhian Gray left her home in Sweyn’s Eye to make a life..