A one-day symposium at the University of Leeds and online. Museum microhistories offer a rich field of potential to explore broader historical questions; in the words of William Blake, ‘see the world in a grain of sand’. Microhistory also aims to highlight the significance of the seemingly insignificant, to focus on the lacunae of history, purposefully drawing in and directing attention towards marginal(ized) voices and perspectives and emphasising the agency of the ‘ordinary’. Microhistory aims to explore the relationships between large historical narratives and individual case studies and to disrupt established grand historical narratives, countering oversimplification. It encourages close analysis of primary source materials ‘with a microscope not a telescope’, ‘following’ clues through sources (Ghobrial 2019).