Last night I was watching Fake or Fortune (I think that was what it was called) and during a question into why a particular painter would have painted this scene, the investigator went back through the social pages of a newspaper where he located a description of a ball held by the govenor. Because it was a gossip column, the author went into detail about what everyone was wearing and how the scene was set at the party, which in part helped to corroborate that the painter must have been there.
The investigator went on the express his surprise at the value of gossip columns. It would be akin to us now placing some value on some tabloid for historical reference. You just never know, do you, how something printed in Grazia or the Sunday Mail might prove invaluable to solving a mystery decades later...
In other news I also saw the Svankmeyer film Conspirators of Pleasure. It was very good and had all those enjoyable stop motion elements.
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