Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

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

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

Surrey 1940. Overhead the Battle of Britain rages. Below at the Poppy Factory disabled WWI veterans ..