Ella Sinclair is a writer and researcher based in London. Her work covers history, politics, race, and racism, and is broadly committed to social justice. She has written for the Guardian, The Voice, The Lead, gal-dem, Cosmopolitan, and Shado-Mag. Sinclair is a researcher across public history projects engaging with British legacies of transatlantic slavery and colonialism, designed to amplify under-represented parts of Britain’s history. She has contributed to exhibitions at Manchester Art Gallery, and is currently working on another historical project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. She also works as a communications professional, raising the profile of nonprofits.
Ella Sinclair
My Hit List

Ella Sinclair’s cultural highlights
The writer and researcher on the soothing album Tuff Times Never Last by Kokoroko, the brilliance of the novel Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson, the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, candid discussions of the If I Speak podcast and being captivated by the Chineke! Orchestra.
20th March 2026
Close Up

Carefully remembering as healing
Tending to the legend of forgotten Black Londoner Mary Woolaston
3rd September 2025
Original Series

Straightening out the kinks
Ella Sinclair remembers how she first realised that she didn't need to straighten her hair and the influence of Malcolm X in that decision.
5th May 2025
Reviews

Archive of an Unseen
Christopher Samuel’s interactive installation: an immersive enquiry into the body
1st January 2025

Ella Sinclair
Ella Sinclair is a writer and researcher whose work covers history, politics, race, and racism, and is broadly committed to social justice.








