Item category 1: Family Saga

It is 1938 and the threat of war looms on the streets of London. But, when the lights go down in the cinema aisles, usherette Daisy Blake is transported to a world of glamour and romance. Among the staff there is much merriment and Daisy soon falls in love with the handsome organist, Al Dawson. T...

Autumn 1944, the Allies are invading Italy. At home in Britain, along with everyone else, the Campion family are doing their bit - working tirelessly in the hope that the end of the war is now in sight.

London, 1910. Identical twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pianist; Lillia a magnificent opera singer. But their cruel father has other ideas for their future. Lester is sent to military academy, while Lillia must marry Lord Dalton - a self righte...

London, 1910. Identical twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pianist; Lillia a magnificent opera singer. But their cruel father has other ideas for their future. Lester is sent to military academy, while Lillia must marry Lord Dalton - a self righte...

Mary Trimble works as an usherette at the Marlborough cinema in the Holloway Road, but her dream is to escape the horrors of London and take her family on a long charabanc trip to some faraway place: the famous Blue Coach from Victoria Coach Station to Devon. But little does she know her dream wi...

London, 1918. 20-year-old Emily Burdon has been training as a nurse, learning on the job as she tends to patients from the crowded poorhouses that ring the hospital as well as wounded soldiers. She pours her heart into her nursing while she waits for happier times - peace in Europe, and the retur...

The changes the war has brought are affecting everybody, not least the Campion family. Luke, son of the household and battle-scarred veteran of Dunkirk, is away fighting, while twins Lou and Sasha grow further apart. The Campions, along with the rest of the nation, must face their fears and endur...

Three years into the war and the country is facing its darkest days. Victory has never seemed so far away. The changes the war has brought are affecting everyone, not least the Campion family. The Campions must face their fears and endure their darkest hour.

Jo Kingsley is transported from her turbulent childhood of domestic servitude, to the sophisticated life of the upper classes at the beautiful Chateau Colbert. Here she meets Jean-Pierre, the grandson of her employer, Madame Colbert, and visits Paris. But Jo's destiny takes her to America where s...

When a daughter has no home can she ever hope to find happiness? Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father went missing in the Irish Civil War. Now, ten years later she is forced to flee her home and journey to Liverpool seeking a better f...