All her short life eleven-year old Rose Webster has encountered closed doors. Growing up in the slum..

Britain is at war and Ruth a gifted pilot is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Over in..

Amy Carter is just 14 when she leaves school to look after her sick mother. But she is left all alon..

In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

When the Second World War breaks out Annie Webster and her close-knit family find themselves - along..

In 1960 Kate Freeman daughter of the inimitable Rose Webster goes to London to follow her dream of b..

It was on a Sunday night in 1928 that Billy Hopkins made his first appearance. Billy's tenement home..

It's June 1897 and Kate is celebrating her eleventh birthday on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond ..

It is 1945 and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends happy that at long..

Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But h..

Blood Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world ..

The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the rai..

Bank Holiday Monday and beautiful Zellah Wilding straight-A student at St Margaret's prefect and fut..

After getting shot down in the skies over France in the winter of 1939 airman Robert Bozdech stumble..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...