In the first episode, broadcaster and best-selling author Fern Britton time travels back to her childhood home in Buckinghamshire. Retracing familiar haunts from her youth, she tries to understand that world through adult eyes as she uncovers Buckinghamshire's hidden history. Fern then explores the extraordinary secret story behind Newland Park, a manor house that at the turn of the 20th century harboured suffragettes who were on the run from prison, a legacy she had no idea existed. Her journey ends at her old secondary school, where she is moved to tears.