Exhibitions preview: Windows On War, Nottingham

Perhaps it is historically instructive that most wartime propaganda turns out to be eerily similar in its appeal to the worst - and parody of the best - of human characteristics. During the second world war the Central Soviet Telegraph Agency commissioned, (or coerced) artists and authors to design and hand-stencil over 1,000 large-scale posters that became known as the TASS Windows, due to their usually being exposed in shop fronts. So here some 129 surviving posters reveal familiar propagandist...