The school historian must constantly deal with the question of importance. Usually, the minutia of daily lives is forgotten and put aside or are so intertwined by time and memory to be at least conflicting if not useless. The past, for many, is what we want it to be. Memory, for others, is relegated into the bin of unimportance. The present counts.
Tomorrow is to be looked forward to.
Yesterday is burnt ashes. Thirdly, if a people do sense their importance enough to keep a record or they do indeed have a self-perception which they wish to pass along, too often the chroniclers catch the structure of the times and leave the spirit. All of the sources provided needed information and sometimes contained conflicting stories. Each tried to tell a part of the story. It is with hindsight that we search for the whole story.