Let’s hear it for the ladies! Here are some of the many women who made their mark on history this year.

From waxes, to lasers and vajazzles - there is a whole booming business built around grooming lady bits. Why are we so obsessed with coifing our nether regions and what are the hair-down-there questions we're too embarrassed to ask?

Joan of Leeds reportedly tricked her fellow nuns into burying a dummy in her place and ran away from her York convent.