*Please note that this event has been cancelled*     The existence of this complex urban society that was the Indus or Harappan Civilisation, remained unknown until the 20 September 1924. It was then that Sir John Marshall, Director-General of Archaeology in the Raj, announced its discovery in the pages of the Illustrated London News. …

The son of a village doctor, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s. In a major career shift, he entered the consular service, went to China, and ended up as British Minister (the equivalent of today’s ambassador) to Japan…