Bloody Old Britain: O G S Crawford and the archaeology of modern life. By Kitty Hauser. 198mm. Pp 304, ills. London: Granta Books, 2008. ISBN 9781862078734 \\pounds16.99 (hbk); 9781847080776 \\pounds9.99 (pbk).
Bloodied Banners: martial display on the medieval battlefield. By Robert W Jones. 240mm. Pp xi+205, 14 figs and 10 col ills. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010. ISBN 9781843835615. \\pounds50 (hbk).
Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: how anaesthetics changed the world. By Stephanie J Snow. 215mm. Pp xiv + 226, 16 b&w ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780192805867. \\pounds16.99 (hbk).
Beyond the Medieval Village: the diversification of landscape character in southern Britain. By Stephen Rippon. 250mm. Pp 434, 82 illus, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780199203826. \\pounds60 (hbk).
Beyond the Grave: new perspectives on barrows. Edited by Jonathan Last. 269mm. Pp 180. Ills throughout. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007. ISBN 9781842172582. \\pounds35 (pbk).
Belzoni. The Giant that Archaeologists Love to Hate. By Ivor Noel Hume. 250mm. Pp xi+301, frontisp, 39 col pls, 47 b&w ills, 1 map. Charlottesville (Va) and London: University of Virginia Press, 2011. ISBN 9780813931401. $34.95 (hbk).
Being an Islander. Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney AD 900–1600. Edited byBarrett James. 285mm. Pp xiv + 366, many figs and tables, some col.McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,Cambridge,2012. ISBN9781902937618. \\pounds56 (hbk).
Becoming Neanderthals. The Earlier British Middle Palaeolithic. By Beccy Scott. 288mm. Pp xiii+234, many b&w figs, tables, etc. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011. ISBN 9781842179734. \\pounds50 (hbk).
Becket's Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170–1300. By Paul Binski. 290mm. Pp xvi + 343, 210 b&w ills, 80 col pls. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2004. ISBN 0300105096. \\pounds40 (hbk).
