Where is Van Oldenbarnevelt actually buried? How exactly could someone purchase a plot of land in seventeenth-century Amsterdam? What was in the cargo of ships to the Baltic Sea? How did housewives cook with the ingredients brought by the VOC? In The Golden Age, historian Hans Goedkoop delves deeper into the heyday of the history of the Netherlands: The Golden Age. He goes in search of the historical and current story of the most prosperous century in our history.