Max Solling
Max Charles Solling is an Australian urban and sports historian.Biography
Born in Sydney, Max Solling has been a resident of Glebe since 1960. He was educated at Newington College and the University of Sydney where he was awarded a University Sporting Blue in boxing and was Australian Universities boxing champion. In 1972 he completed his MA on the development of nineteenth-century Glebe and he was a founding editor of the Leichhardt Historical Journal. He is also a qualified and practicing solicitor.Publications
- Town and Country: A History of the Manning Valley, Halstead Press,
- An Act of Bastardry: Rugby league axes its first club: Glebe District Rugby League Football Club 1908 to 1929, Walla Walla Press,
- Grandeur and Grit: A History of Glebe, Halstead Press,
- The Boatshed on Blackwattle Bay, Glebe Rowing Club,
- Leichhardt: On the Margins of the City with Peter Reynolds, Allen & Unwin, (A social history of Leichhardt and the former municipalities of Annandale, Balmain and Glebe.
- Contributor, Oxford Companion to Australian Sport
- Contributor, Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket
Awards
- Australian Sports Medal as a local sporting historian
- Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly through researching, recording and publishing the history of Glebe
