Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies - she makes a living by taking in unwanted c..

Eliza Wild has come a long way from her hungry childhood days in a rented miner's cottage on Pit Lan..

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..

Hull 1930. A terrified woman runs through the dark rain-lashed streets pursued by a man desperate to..

Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a comfortable ho..

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

Rainey Bird Ivy Sparrow and Bea Herron all love to sing. For Rainey music has been a solace during t..

When Stella Swift is discovered holding a shard of broken glass near her newborn baby fears that she..

Barbara Roberts pretty mischievous and 17 has grown up wanting for nothing. But a long-buried family..

Sunderland 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance...Polly's sweetheart Tommy ..

Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey. Separated fro..

1936. West Yorkshire is home to a gleaming brand-new telephone exchange where Cynthia Norma and Mill..

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

Liverpool 1870. On the dirty backstreets of Liverpool housemaid Maud Linklater witnesses an appallin..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

When her husband a known Nazi supporter is released from prison Celia refuses to return to her unhap..

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..

When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - re..

Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

Gosport 1941. The Bluebird Girls - Rainey Bird Bea Herron and Ivy Sparrow - are on their way to star..

Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..

Liverpool 1868. Shrouded in secrecy Alice Sampson gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. But the form..

The war is almost over - and it's up to the East End Angels to keep the home fires burning! Frankie'..

1914. While their men fight in France at home in Britain women are finally seizing the opportunity t..

It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..

After the tragic death of her father aspiring singer Jessie Delaney has been forced to live with her..

Sunderland 1942. With the war showing no sign of abating Helen is thriving in her role as shipyard m..

Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother a famous French impressionist painter in ..

Manchester 1922. Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage pe..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

A new century brings change to Eden Harris's ordered world. Despite years of service to the Bradbury..

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..

Summer 1942. Britain is in the depths of war and the Women's Land Army is hard at work looking after..

Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow Hill workhouse. She now..

Mary is a driver for the ATA and although she yearns to fly a Spitfire she fears her humble backgrou..

Margate 1884. When 17-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home she never dreamed she'd find her ..

1943 and The Bluebird Girls are at the top of their game. They are touring with ENSA visiting army b..

Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..

Deploring social injustice Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency concealing the fact that she'..

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

Sunderland 1942: Christmas is fast approaching. Against all odds Polly's fiancé has finally returne..

Manchester 1908. Attractive intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will..

In 1898 three young girls leave a Dublin orphanage to enter a life of domestic service. They are pla..

Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..

Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family so when she blossoms ..

Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..

After Ruth Dixon's mother deserts her on Christmas Eve her father comes home drunk and commits an un..