Biography
Dr Shaukat Ahmed MBE is the author of Bangladeshis in Bradford (2025), the first book-length community history of Bradford's Bangladeshi settlement. The book was launched at BEAP Community Partnership in Manningham as part of Bradford's designation as UK City of Culture 2025, and fills a gap in the historical record that had remained open since Stephen W. Barton's 1986 academic monograph The Bengali Muslims of Bradford. Drawing on oral histories, census data, and archive material, the book documents Bradford's Bangladeshi community from the first arrivals in the late 1950s through to the present day. Dr Ahmed's work feeds directly into BEAP's plans for a national British-Bangladeshi Heritage Centre in Manningham. He received an MBE for services to British Bangladeshi heritage.