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

Lily and Vincent have been dancing everything from the waltz to the foxtrot together since they were..

It’s Christmas 1880 in London’s East End and a dying Irish girl leaves her baby in the care of t..

Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..

Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..

Cat Cleary is a 16-year-old Irish 'slummy' arriving in Liverpool to seek her fortune. Joe Calligan t..

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

Devon 1918. When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the..

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

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

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

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

Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever..

Even in wartime East End girl Nancy Evans has reason to hope. She's a rising star in the Women's Aux..

Margaret Beaufort was rich beautiful and just 13 years of age when she discovered that she carried t..