1939: Young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex bound for Australia. She is ready to start ..

1666. The Great Plague has passed. Londoners celebrate survival in different ways. They drink. They ..

Hampshire 1900. With the sudden death of her father the life of 15-year-old Harriet Benson changes f..

London 1897. A young girl Valentine Grey arrives in England. She's been brought up in the remote and..

It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith the village midwife walks a dangero..

At just 18 Lucrezia Borgia the alluring daughter of the Pope has already had her life touched by dis..

Mrs Tim goes to the Highlands of Scotland and is involved in a plot to rescue a naval officer from t..

Antonia and her sister Louise grow up as thick as thieves in a world apart from their detached paren..

With the help of her old diaries Sarah Morris recounts her life story. The daughter of an English vi..

Olivia Hanbury is widowed in the middle of WWI and reluctantly goes back to live with her parents. I..

1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright happy ..

1941. With the men away fighting animal-lover Hettie Quin is made Belfast Zoo's first ever female zo..

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