Max Solling

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.

• 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

• 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]