When Carrie Chapman signs up to be an ambulance attendant at the outbreak of World War Two she has l..

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..

When her mother dies in childbirth Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt Annie Grafton. Anni..

In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows they shar..

Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

Addy and Prue Fairweather live with their widowed mother Nell in a flat above her shop. Addy is plai..

Living on the edge of the beautiful Norfolk Broads with her father the only ripple in Tess Delamere'..

'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..

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

When Daisy’s family lose their croft on the Connemara coast her Aunt Jane housekeeper to Dr and Mr..

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. She travels to the Somme w..

It is 1913 and for orphans Megan and Hattie brought up in a convent in Leeds the time has come to ma..

Ten-year-old Amy Farthing miraculously survives the sinking of the Lusitania but loses both her pare..

Liverpool 1938. It’s Christmas in the Courts and single mother Rosheen Clarke and her mischievous ..