1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..

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

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

The eldest of three children Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the mate..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

Verity Templeton 18 and fiercely independent travels to London with her aunt for the season. During ..

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

Surrey 1940. Overhead the Battle of Britain rages. Below at the Poppy Factory disabled WWI veterans ..

Berry Chambers and her co-workers have joined the Women's Timber Corps - known as the Lumberjills - ..

Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..

Alice and Isaac have been close friends since childhood but their paths diverge when they discover t..

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

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