The one-percenter biker patch became a symbol of outlaw motorcycle culture, but its supposed origins in a 1947 California disturbance are more complicated than the legend suggests. From embroidered club colours to Hollywood's leather-clad rebels, discover how a small diamond-shaped badge acquired an enormous reputation.

Arthur Rimbaud revolutionised French poetry as a teenager, then abandoned writing before his twenty-second birthday. From a violent literary affair in Brussels to a new life trading in Africa, his extraordinary disappearance from literature remains one of its most fascinating mysteries.

Ronnie Biggs escaped Wandsworth Prison in broad daylight using rope ladders and a waiting furniture van. The extraordinary 1965 breakout transformed a convicted train robber into an international fugitive and exposed embarrassing weaknesses in Britain's prison security.