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 1953
- Oxford Triumphant 1954
- Writing for the BBC 1966 to 1988
Detective Stories
- Death Won't Wash 1957
- A Head for Death 1958
- Strip Death Naked 1959, Garland Publishing, New York, 1989
- Vote for Death 1960
- Death in Office 1961
Careers Books
- Keith in Electricity 1961
- Electricity Supply 1961
- Electricity as a Career 1964
General Social History
- King Cholera: the Biography of a Disease 1966
- The Waterdrinkers: a History of Temperance 1968
- Alive and Well: Medicine and Public Health 1830 to the Present Day 1970
- The Workhouse 1974, 2003
- Milestones in Working Class History 1975
- The Hungry Mills: the Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-5 1974
- The Breadstealers: the Fight Against the Corn Laws 1838-46 1984 1984
History of the Second World War
- How We Lived Then: a History of Everyday Life during the Second World War 1971, 1973, 2002
- If Britain Had Fallen 1972; 1974, 1975, 2004
- The Real Dad's Army: the Story of the Home Guard 1974, 1974, 2010
- The GIs: the Americans in Britain 1942-1945 1975
- Air Raid: the Bombing of Coventry, 1940 1976, 1978, 1978
- When We Won the War: the Story of Victory in Europe, 1945 1977
- The Doodlebugs: the Story of the Flying Bombs 1981, 1986
- Hitler's Rockets: the Story of the V2s 1982, 2009
- The Bombers: the RAF Offensive Against Germany 1983, 1988
- The Home Front: an Anthology of Personal Experience 1938-1945. Edited with a Preface. 1986
General Military History
- Defending the Island: From Caesar to the Armada 1989, 1990, 2001
- Island Fortress: the Defence of Great Britain 1603-1945 1991, 1993, 2001
Autobiography
- The Shaping Season: an Author's Autobiography - Childhood and Schooldays 2000 & 2001