New series poll - vote now! (Patreon)

Once again, many great suggestions, and some tough choices for the shortlist. Here are your four options:

1. World War Two - this will bring a truly global perspective to the largest conflict in history, in the style of the WW1 series but with improved visuals. The series will show how all the campaigns, in every theatre, ebbed and flowed over 6 years, with archive film and a global map.

2. Anglo-Saxon England - when they weren't fighting Picts, Britons or the Vikings, they were usually fighting each other! This is the story of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and 'the birth of England'. 

3. Belisarius - the greatest general you've never heard of? Well, we've all heard of him because we're history addicts, but this will bring the remarkable tale of Belisarius and the Eastern Roman fightback to a wide new audience.

4. American War of Independence - Britain's own Vietnam experience? How the world's  colonial superpower was defeated by rebels fighting for their right to (Boston Tea) party. The focus of my own Senior Honours course at university and a fascinating study in how not to fight a colonial counter-insurgency campaign.

There were many other great suggestions. Both the Seven Years War and Thirty Years War got a lot of support, but on this occasion I feel, for my own creativity and sanity, that I need something that's a little more of a change-up from the Napoleonic Wars. Honourable mentions also to the English Civil War, Wars of the Roses, Crimean War and the campaigns of Marlborough. All may well appear in future polls. 

Poll closes in seven days.