1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

When Molly Holden’s husband Thomas is convicted of being a Luddite on the word of a secret informe..

Emmie Kelso is only nine years old when she is rescued from a dingy Gateshead tenement and sent to C..

Rosie's family doesn't have much money but she's rich in other ways and when Danny Walsh asks her to..

Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is ..

When Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age he began by inviting Welsh bus..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. T..

1915. Beth Healey hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate her 18th birth..

1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend the previously f..

From a chrysalis to a butterfly...When young paintress Megan Cresswell is left penniless in 1950 her..

Two girls - one street. Two families across a social divide. As a child Josie Ford fiery and ambitio..

For sale: One child six months old Lissie. The seller: Grace Beighton watched the baby's mother die...

In September 1940 the Isle of Dogs suffers the first terrible night of a nine-month Blitz. Amidst th..