Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..

Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lott..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

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

Lily and Vincent have been dancing everything from the waltz to the foxtrot together since they were..

February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London’s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destr..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

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

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

In 1950 after her marriage went badly wrong Dolly Taylor returned to Rotherhithe from America. She i..

1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..

The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

1920s. When her father dies Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position tak..