Learning about the Lords - Telegraph The videos include three educational animations - entitled Who is in the House of Lords?, How does the House of Lords work? and What is the House of Lords? - as well as three further films containing clips of members of the public attempting to answer these questions. The videos - which are aimed primarily at teachers and pupils aged 14 and up - provide information on major developments in the upper house including the 1958 Life Peerages Act, which allowed female peers to sit in the Lords for the first time, and Tony Blair's 1999 Lords Act. "The changes since 1999 in terms of hereditary and life peers particularly seem to be misunderstood by young people," says Greenland. But spokespersons for the project insist the films are merely intended to inform and provoke debate, rather than improve young people's opinions of the House of Lords. "It's not about whether impressions are positive or negative," says Clare Ramsaran, of the Lords Press Office. It's about increasing understanding of a sometimes lesser-known side of Parliament. Or as the videos themselves put it: "Hey! The House of Lords isn't some giant house party for old men. View the Parliament's Education Service animations: