Dr Eireann Marshall is a Research Associate and Associate Lecturer with the Open University. She has published a number of articles on Ancient North Africa, and co-edited volumes on 'Death and Disease in the Ancient City' and ‘Women’s influence on Classical Civilisation’.

Eireann has led many tours for specialist tour operators, to Italy and North Africa.

In 2019 she was awarded Wanderlust Magazine's Top History & Culture Guide at its World Guide Awards.

Professor Gregory Dowling is Associate Professor of American Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

He has written numerous articles on Venice, and was responsible for the sightseeing pages of the first five editions of the Time Out Guide to Venice. He is a member of the directorial board for a new museum in Ravenna devoted to Lord Byron, which will open in 2020.

He is also the author of the "Alvise Marangon" historical thriller novels set in Venice and a regular lecturer at the “Circolo Italo-Britannico” in Venice.

Anthony Majanlahti is a historian and writer. Academically trained in social history he is an expert in the social uses of art and architecture: exploring the social context of a building or a work of art to find out the story behind it.

He lives in Rome full-time, and is the author of 'The Families Who Made Rome' a history of the noble clans that have built the piazzas, palazzi and fountains of Rome. He has also published historical guides to Rome under the Fascist dictatorship, and about the Nazi occupation of Rome.