“Move on!” a male’s voice booms, as visitors to Joe Howson's front yard are shuttled along a journey pierced by gunshots and marked by risk and rejection at all turns. It's the sort of experience few would expect to find in the English countryside, on a plot hemmed in by sheep farms and the Forest of Bowland. But that's why Mr. Howson created this eight-room space that takes people through a refugee’s experience so that they understand just what asylum seekers are fleeing back home, and what they are finding in Britain once they arrive. Recommended: Keep calm and answer on: Take our United Kingdom quiz. And the exhibit couldn’t come at a better time here, as Europe faces its...
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