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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Van Lieshout, Carry (2019). [Book Review] The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England. By Eric H. Ash. Environmental History, 24(1) pp. 173–175.

Van Lieshout, Carry (2018). The History of the London Water Industry, 1580-1820 [book review]. The London Journal, 43(3) pp. 317–318.

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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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.

Van Lieshout, Carry (2017). “The Most Valuable Means of Extinguishing the Destroying Fires”: Fire-fighting and the London Water Companies in the Long Eighteenth Century. The London Journal, 42(1) pp. 53–69.

Van Lieshout, Carry (2016). British Environmental History. Areas: revista internacional de ciencias sociales, 35 pp. 27–35.

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Van Lieshout, Carry (2016). Droughts and Dragons: Geography, Rainfall, and Eighteenth-Century London’s Water Systems. Technology and Culture, 57(4) pp. 780–805.

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.