Norman Longmate
Norman Longmate (15 December 1925 – 4 June 2016) was an English author and social and military historian.
He was educated at
How We Used to Live.[1] He was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1981. Longmate died in June 2016 at the age of 90.[2] He was married to and separated from Elizabeth (nee Taylor), 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.[3]
Works by Norman Longmate
Miscellaneous
- A Socialist Anthology (Phoenix House) 1953
- Oxford Triumphant (Phoenix House) 1954
- Writing for the BBC (BBC Publications) 1966 (1st edition) to 1988 (8th edition)
Detective Stories
- Death Won't Wash (Cassell) 1957
- A Head for Death (Cassell) 1958
- Strip Death Naked (Cassell) 1959, Garland Publishing, New York, 1989
- Vote for Death (Cassell) 1960
- Death in Office (Robert Hale) 1961
Careers Books
- Keith in Electricity (Chatto & Windus) 1961
- Electricity Supply (Sunday Times) 1961
- Electricity as a Career (Batsford) 1964
General Social History
- King Cholera: the Biography of a Disease (Hamish Hamilton) 1966
- The Waterdrinkers: a History of Temperance (Hamish Hamilton) 1968
- Alive and Well: Medicine and Public Health 1830 to the Present Day (Penguin Education) 1970
- The Workhouse (Temple Smith) 1974, (Pimlico) 2003
- Milestones in Working Class History (BBC Publications) 1975
- The Hungry Mills: the Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-5 (Temple Smith) 1974
- The Breadstealers: the Fight Against the Corn Laws 1838-46 (Temple Smith) 1984 (St Martin's Press, New York) 1984
History of the Second World War
- How We Lived Then: a History of Everyday Life during the Second World War (Hutchinson) 1971, (Arrow Books) 1973, (Pimlico) 2002
- If Britain Had Fallen (BBC Publications and Hutchinson) 1972; (Stein and Day, New York) 1974, (Arrow Books) 1975, (Greenhill Books, London & Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Philadelphia) 2004
- The Real Dad's Army: the Story of the Home Guard (Hutchinson) 1974, (Arrow Books) 1974, (Amberley) 2010
- The GIs: the Americans in Britain 1942-1945 (Hutchinson) 1975
- Air Raid: the Bombing of Coventry, 1940 (Hutchinson) 1976, (Arrow Books) 1978, (David McKay, New York) 1978
- When We Won the War: the Story of Victory in Europe, 1945 (Hutchinson) 1977
- The Doodlebugs: the Story of the Flying Bombs (Hutchinson) 1981, (Arrow Books) 1986
- Hitler's Rockets: the Story of the V2s (Hutchinson) 1982, (Pen & Sword Books) 2009
- The Bombers: the RAF Offensive Against Germany (Hutchinson) 1983, (Arrow Books) 1988
- The Home Front: an Anthology of Personal Experience 1938-1945. Edited with a Preface. (Chatto & Windus) 1986
General Military History
- Defending the Island: From Caesar to the Armada (Hutchinson) 1989, (Grafton Books) 1990, (Pimlico) 2001
- Island Fortress: the Defence of Great Britain 1603-1945 (Hutchinson) 1991, (Grafton Books) 1993, (Pimlico) 2001
Autobiography
- The Shaping Season: an Author's Autobiography - Childhood and Schooldays (Fairford Press) 2000 & 2001
References
- ^ Longmate, Jill, "Norman Longmate obituary", The Guardian, 5 July 2016.
- The Telegraph, 27 June 2016.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
External links
- Jill Longmate, "Social historian who corresponded with Mary Whitehouse", Prospero: The newspaper for BBC pensioners, issue 6, December 2016, page 11.
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