Games
MyUK
Take charge of Britain and create a country to call your own. Choose and pass new laws, customise your country and pursue your personal vision of the UK. For ages 13-15 years.
MP For A Week
Step into the shoes of an MP. Decide on laws, debate with other MPs, deal with the media, make a speech in the House of Commons Chamber and meet ministers and your constituents. Can you keep your party and your voters happy to survive the week?
Race Against Chime
Big Ben needs you to swing into action! Dangling from the Clock Tower can you clean the world's most famous clock face in time for the New Year celebrations?
Activities
Houses of History
This is no ordinary timeline. Watch playful animations while exploring nearly one thousand years of British and parliamentary history.
Videos
The General Election Xplained
Follow comedian Jay Foreman as he explains the general election process, in a fun and accessible way, and asks questions like why young people should take part.
Democracy? You decide
Author and journalist, Danny Wallace, takes a light-hearted look at our system of governance.
MPs: In their own words
Watch MPs talk politics and Parliament in 40 video clips. Twelve MPs, including the Commons Speaker, offer their views on how Parliament works and life in the House of Commons in these 1-3 minute interview clips.
Articles and animations
Parliament explained
So what goes on in the Westminster Parliament? We don't think it should be a mystery. Written in plain English, these articles and animations give the homework-busting basics for understanding Parliament.
Downloadable resources
The Tower of Power
Key Stage 4 students will get all the basics of what goes on 'behind the portcullis' in this magazine-style introduction to Parliament.