Norman Longmate
Norman Longmate was an English author and social and military historian.
He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. Author of 31 books, and of various radio documentaries, he often worked as a historical adviser on TV programmes, including the BAFTA-award winning How We Used to Live. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1981. Longmate died in June 2016 at the age of 90. He was married to and separated from Elizabeth, who was a deputy head teacher. She died in 2011. His daughter, Jill, was a teacher, writer and historian who died in 2023 aged 63.
Works by Norman Longmate
Miscellaneous
A Socialist Anthology 1953Oxford Triumphant 1954Writing for the BBC 1966 to 1988
Detective Stories
Death Won't Wash 1957A Head for Death 1958Strip Death Naked 1959, Garland Publishing, New York, 1989Vote for Death 1960Death in Office 1961
Careers Books
Keith in Electricity 1961Electricity Supply 1961Electricity as a Career 1964
General Social History
King Cholera: the Biography of a Disease 1966The Waterdrinkers: a History of Temperance 1968Alive and Well: Medicine and Public Health 1830 to the Present Day 1970The Workhouse 1974, 2003Milestones in Working Class History 1975The Hungry Mills: the Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-5 1974The Breadstealers: the Fight Against the Corn Laws 1838-46 1984 1984
How We Lived Then: a History of Everyday Life during the Second World War 1971, 1973, 2002If Britain Had Fallen 1972; 1974, 1975, 2004The Real Dad's Army: the Story of the Home Guard 1974, 1974, 2010The GIs: the Americans in Britain 1942-1945 1975Air Raid: the Bombing of Coventry, 1940 1976, 1978, 1978When We Won the War: the Story of Victory in Europe, 1945 1977The Doodlebugs: the Story of the Flying Bombs 1981, 1986Hitler's Rockets: the Story of the V2s 1982, 2009The Bombers: the RAF Offensive Against Germany 1983, 1988The Home Front: an Anthology of Personal Experience 1938-1945. Edited with a Preface. 1986
Defending the Island: From Caesar to the Armada 1989, 1990, 2001Island Fortress: the Defence of Great Britain 1603-1945 1991, 1993, 2001
Autobiography
The Shaping Season: an Author's Autobiography - Childhood and Schooldays 2000 & 2001