In 1989 Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now experiencing the hardships & pleasures enjoyed & endured by Moores gone by. The journey that follows takes him through the world of historical re-enactment: living on bramble leaves Johnny cake & porridge Moore travels from the Iron Age to the Steam Age from Roman legionary to Tudor master to Yankee spy sharing straw beds & daft hats with period obsessives driven by socio-historical curiosity disillusionment with the modern world or a simple nostalgia for campfires flatulence & brutality. I Believe in Yesterday is an odyssey through 2 000 years of filth & fury to a time where men were men the nights were black the world was your outside toilet & everything tasted faintly of leeks.