Lynsey Hanley (born 12 April 1976) is a British writer and academic.
Hanley was born in Birmingham and grew up on a council estate in the suburb of Chelmsley Wood.
[2] Hanley is a visiting fellow in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University.
She is the author of Estates: an Intimate History and Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide, and is also a regular contributor to The Guardian.
A frequent theme of Hanley's work is social mobility, often based on her own journey from a working-class background to attending university and becoming a writer.