The research for this website has produced so much material that it has now led to a book (actually, two books). The main one, in which Ross Midgley tells some of the stories he has uncovered, is entitled Walking the Hamster to the Fountain: a thousand years of history in Hempstead, Essex. A separate booklet, entitled At the Going Down of the Sun, portrays the men commemorated on Hempstead’s War Memorial: this builds significantly on previously known information and contains some remarkable stories. More details and ordering information are available from the books page here