Norman Longmate (15 December 1925 – 4 June 2016) was an English author and social and military historian. He was educated at

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and

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, where he read

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. 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

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in 1981. Longmate died in June 2016 at the age of 90."Norman Longmate, historian – obituary"
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'', 27 June 2016.

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

External links

* Jill Longmate
"Social historian who corresponded with Mary Whitehouse"
''Prospero: The newspaper for BBC pensioners'', issue 6, December 2016, page 11. 1925 births 2016 deaths English historians Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Historical Society {{UK-writer-stub