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Bennett, Robert J.; Smith, Harry; Montebruno, Piero and Van Lieshout, Carry (2022). Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates. Business History, 64(7) pp. 1211–1243.

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Bennett, Robert J.; Montebruno, Piero; Van Lieshout, Carry and Smith, Harry (2022). Business Entry and Exit: Career Changes of Proprietors in England and Wales (1851–81) Using Record-Linkage. Social Science History, 46(2) pp. 255–289.

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Bishop, Catherine; Aston, Jennifer and Van Lieshout, Carry (2021). Bringing Businesswomen to a Count: A Transnational Methodological Experiment Researching Nineteenth-Century Businesswomen. Australian Historical Studies, 52(2) pp. 227–246.

Bennett, Robert J.; Smith, Harry; Van Lieshout, Carry; Montebruno, Piero and Newton, Gill (2019). The Age of Entrepreneurship: Business proprietors, self-employment and corporations since 1851. Abingdon: Routledge.

Endfield, Georgina H. and Van Lieshout, Carry (2020). Water and vertical territory: the volatile and hidden historical geographies of Derbyshire’s lead mining soughs, 1650s–1830s. Geopolitics, 25(1) pp. 65–87.

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Endfield, Georgina and Van Lieshout, Carry (2017). Contested subterranean waterscapes: lead mining sough disputes in Derbyshire’s Derwent Valley. In: Vallerani, Francesco and Visentin, Francesco eds. Waterways and the cultural landscape. London: Routledge.

Green, David R.; Owens, Alastair; Swan, Claire and van Lieshout, Carry (2011). Assets of the dead: wealth, investment, and modernity in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England and Wales. In: Green, David R.; Owens, Alistair; Maltby, Josephine and Rutterford, Janette eds. Men, women, and money: perspectives on gender, wealth, and investment 1850-1930. Oxford University Press.

Montebruno, Piero; Bennett, Robert J.; Smith, Harrry and Van Lieshout, Carry (2020). Machine learning classification of entrepreneurs in British historical census data. Information Processing & Management, 57(3), article no. 102210.

Montebruno, Piero; Bennett, Robert J.; Van Lieshout, Carry and Smith, Harry (2019). A tale of two tails: Do Power Law and Lognormal models fit firm-size distributions in the mid-Victorian era? Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 523 pp. 858–875.

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Montebruno, Piero; Bennett, Robert J.; Van Lieshout, Carry; Smith, Harry and Satchell, Max (2019). Shifts in agrarian entrepreneurship in mid-Victorian England and Wales. Agricultural History Review, 67(1) pp. 71–108.

Rutterford, Janette; Sotiropoulos, Dimitris and Van Lieshout, Carry (2023). Individual investors and social ownership structures in the UK before the 1930s: Joint holdings and trustee investment. The Economic History Review, 76(2) pp. 661–692.

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Rutterford, Janette; Sotiropoulos, Dimitris P. and Van Lieshout, Carry (2017). Individual investors and local bias in the UK: 1870-1935. The Economic History Review, 70(4) pp. 1291–1320.

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Smith, Harry; Bennett, Robert J.; Van Lieshout, Carry and Montebruno, Piero (2021). Entrepreneurship in Scotland, 1851–1911. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 41(1) pp. 38–64.

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Sotiropoulos, Dimitris P.; Rutterford, Janette and Van Lieshout, Carry (2021). The rise of professional asset management: The UK investment trust network before World War I. Business History, 63(5) pp. 826–849.

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Smith, Harry; Bennett, Robert J.; van Lieshout, Carry and Montebruno, Piero (2021). Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911. The History of the Family, 26(1) pp. 100–122.

Smith, Harry; Bennett, Robert J. and Van Lieshout, Carry (2020). Entrepreneurship in Birmingham and Manchester, 1851-1911: A Tale of Two Cities? Midland History, 45(3) pp. 357–380.

Smith, Harry; Bennett, Robert J. and Van Lieshout, Carry (2019). Immigrant business proprietors in England and Wales (1851–1911). Continuity and Change, 34(2) pp. 253–276.

van Lieshout, Carry (2024). Historical Geographies of Large Infrastructure in the Long Eighteenth Century: the case of water in Britain. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 58(1) pp. 57–62.

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van Lieshout, Carry (2024). Managing flow: drainage and flood control in eighteenth-century London. Journal of Urban History (Early Access).

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van Lieshout, Carry; Bennett, Robert J. and Smith, Harry J. (2024). Beyond the elite: corporate directors and their networks in Britain, ca. 1880s-1910s. Enterprise & Society (Early access).

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Van Lieshout, Carry and Newman, Benjamin (2023). Historical geographies. In: Lees, Loretta and Demeritt, David eds. Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 185–189.

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Van Lieshout, Carry; Bennett, Robert J. and Smith, Harry (2021). The British Business Census of Entrepreneurs and firm-size, 1851-1881: new data for economic and business historians. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 54(3) pp. 129–150.

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Van Lieshout, Carry; Smith, Harry and Bennett, Robert J. (2020). Female entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851-1911. In: Aston, Jennifer and Bishop, Catherine eds. Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: Towards a Global Perspective. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan.

Van Lieshout, Carry; Smith, Harry; Montebruno, Piero and Bennett, Robert J. (2019). Female entrepreneurship: business, marriage and motherhood in England and Wales, 1851–1911. Social History, 44(4) pp. 440–468.