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

England 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys ..

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..

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

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

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

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

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

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