1939: Young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex bound for Australia. She is ready to start ..

London 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war in East London Cl..

April 1861. Jack Lark arrives in Boston as civil war storms across America. A hardened soldier Jack ..

1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor of France his ultimate aim: to rule Europe. After defeat at the ..

February 1941. The world is at war and Joyce Cooper is doing her bit for the war effort. But as the ..

It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith the village midwife walks a dangero..

A marriage of dynasty: that is what is expected of Mary Sidney. A marriage to Sir Henry Herbert Earl..

Left profoundly deaf after an accident Émile is no stranger to isolation - or heartbreak. Now as Na..

It's 1940 and Britain is on the brink of invasion. Londoner George has been sent to live in the coun..

During the First World War as men were sent to fight women and girls took their place in munitions f..

What would you do if you saw a girl in a crowd whose face had the same identical birthmark as your o..

1931. Fifteen-year-old Kate witnesses her mother Millicent push a stranger from a station platform i..

England 1238. Raised at the court of King Henry III as a chamber lady to the queen young Joanna of S..

Eastern Britain 60 CE. Once proud and free the Iceni tribe now pay tribute to the Romans and are rul..

1941. With the men away fighting animal-lover Hettie Quin is made Belfast Zoo's first ever female zo..