London 1859. After years fighting for Queen and country Jack Lark walks back into his mother's East ..

London 1891: Harriet Cameron and her beloved sister Sarah have been brought up by their father radic..

August 1944: Over a thousand Japanese soldiers attempt to break out of a prisoner of war compound ne..

Valentina Yershova’s position in the Romanovs’ Imperial Russian Ballet is the only thing keeping..

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

One hundred and eighty petty convicts are on board the RAJAH all sentenced to transportation to Aust..

New Zealand 1928. When Wilhelm Erdinger arrives in the sleepy village of Falters Mill claiming to wa..

On the east coast of Ireland 13-year-old Finn finds the sword of a slain Norseman and with Odin's ra..

1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini the most celebrated escape artist in the world has sol..

Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a ..

Western Australia 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to..

Was she incredibly brave or incredibly stupid? Neither. Just a bookshop girl doing what she could ag..

In 1942 a group of young women arrive in Cairo Egypt. The Tuis named after the beautiful New Zealand..

Hong Kong 1941 and the streets are filled with Japanese soldiers. Two young people are brought toget..

May 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright sp..