1929. On receipt of an unexpected inheritance small-time crook Horace Butterfield buys a large house..

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1126. Heulwen daughter of Welsh Marcher baron Guyon FitzMiles has grown up with her father's ward Ad..

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1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water Derbyshire. Walter Ryan has returned home a broken man and so it falls ..

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Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

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1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

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After 30 years at St Oswald’s Grammar in North Yorkshire Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all k..

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

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In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..