Max Solling

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Max Charles Solling (OAM; b. 1942) 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 (1955-1959)[1] 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.[2] He is also a qualified and practicing solicitor.

Publications[]

  • Town and Country: A History of the Manning Valley (2014), Halstead Press, ISBN 9781920831561
  • An Act of Bastardry: Rugby league axes its first club: Glebe District Rugby League Football Club 1908 to 1929 (2014), Walla Walla Press, ISBN 9781876718206
  • Grandeur and Grit: A History of Glebe (2007), Halstead Press, ISBN 1-920831-38-X
  • The Boatshed on Blackwattle Bay (1993), Glebe Rowing Club, ISBN 0-646-14811-7
  • Leichhardt: On the Margins of the City (1997) with Peter Reynolds, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 186448408X (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 (2000)[3]
  • Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly through researching, recording and publishing the history of Glebe (2005)[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 185
  2. ^ Leichhardt Historical Journal website Archived 26 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Australian Sports Medal website
  4. ^ Medal of the Order of Australia website


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