My girlfriend is really intelligent! She just went to the worst high school in the country (UK). Case in point she now works for IBM as a software developer, but last night didn't know what the Soviet Union was when it came up while watching Stranger Things. Nothing. Vaguely knew it had something to do with communism but had no idea it was now Russia. Also has no knowledge of the great wars etc etc. Her school simply didn't teach history (criminal!).
Any good courses about? Preferably video courses that we could watch maybe 10-15 minutes of before going to bed or something. Podcasts would work too. I found the Khan Academy course which may be ideal but not sure if it goes into good detail about anything?
I enjoy the Great Courses history series. They are college level lecture series on a topic, done by college professors. They are broken up into 30 minute lectures, usually 24 or 36 per course. Very informative and well done.
I get them through Audible.