I saw a conversation where a diarist asked what a historian wished to find in someone's diary—like, do they wish for nuanced analyses about current events? But

I saw a conversation where a diarist asked what a historian wished to find in someone's diary—like, do they wish for nuanced analyses about current events? But the historian said the most interesting stuff is that which you don't see in official chronicles or books: daily little things, relationships, habits, food, all the minutiae that still paints a picture of the world from a specific point of view.