Norman Longmate (15 December 1925 – 4 June 2016) 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.
A Socialist Anthology (Phoenix House) 1953Oxford Triumphant (Phoenix House) 1954Writing for the BBC (BBC Publications) 1966 (1st edition) to 1988 (8th edition)Death Won't Wash (Cassell) 1957A Head for Death (Cassell) 1958Strip Death Naked (Cassell) 1959, Garland Publishing, New York, 1989Vote for Death (Cassell) 1960Death in Office (Robert Hale) 1961Keith in Electricity (Chatto & Windus) 1961Electricity Supply (Sunday Times) 1961Electricity as a Career (Batsford) 1964King Cholera: the Biography of a Disease (Hamish Hamilton) 1966The Waterdrinkers: a History of Temperance (Hamish Hamilton) 1968Alive and Well: Medicine and Public Health 1830 to the Present Day (Penguin Education) 1970The Workhouse (Temple Smith) 1974, (Pimlico) 2003Milestones in Working Class History (BBC Publications) 1975The Hungry Mills: the Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-5 (Temple Smith) 1974The Breadstealers: the Fight Against the Corn Laws 1838-46 (Temple Smith) 1984 (St Martin's Press, New York) 1984How We Lived Then: a History of Everyday Life during the Second World War (Hutchinson) 1971, (Arrow Books) 1973, (Pimlico) 2002If Britain Had Fallen (BBC Publications and Hutchinson) 1972; (Stein and Day, New York) 1974, (Arrow Books) 1975, (Greenhill Books, London & Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Philadelphia) 2004The Real Dad's Army: the Story of the Home Guard (Hutchinson) 1974, (Arrow Books) 1974, (Amberley) 2010The GIs: the Americans in Britain 1942-1945 (Hutchinson) 1975Air Raid: the Bombing of Coventry, 1940 (Hutchinson) 1976, (Arrow Books) 1978, (David McKay, New York) 1978When We Won the War: the Story of Victory in Europe, 1945 (Hutchinson) 1977The Doodlebugs: the Story of the Flying Bombs (Hutchinson) 1981, (Arrow Books) 1986Hitler's Rockets: the Story of the V2s (Hutchinson) 1982, (Pen & Sword Books) 2009The Bombers: the RAF Offensive Against Germany (Hutchinson) 1983, (Arrow Books) 1988The Home Front: an Anthology of Personal Experience 1938-1945. Edited with a Preface. (Chatto & Windus) 1986Defending the Island: From Caesar to the Armada (Hutchinson) 1989, (Grafton Books) 1990, (Pimlico) 2001Island Fortress: the Defence of Great Britain 1603-1945 (Hutchinson) 1991, (Grafton Books) 1993, (Pimlico) 2001The Shaping Season: an Author's Autobiography - Childhood and Schooldays (Fairford Press) 2000 & 2001
