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

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

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

Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..

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

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

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

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

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

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

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 ..

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..

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