Lancaster Civic Vision Unveils Plaque for Suffragette Selina Martin

Lancaster Civic Vision Unveils Plaque for Suffragette Selina Martin

Lancaster Civic Vision is delighted that our latest commemorative plaque was unveiled recently to commemorate Suffragette, Selina Martin. Selina Martin lived at 29 Sun St, having moved from Ulverston in 1896. Selina was an active and influential member of the Women’s Social and Political Union, “the Suffragettes,” and was imprisoned on a number of occasions. She was the first woman to be forcibly fed when on hunger strike in prison. Selina was …