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General material relating to Jen Wilson's involvement with the media via the Women's Jazz Archive, including background research/notes; statement of payment from the BBC; correspondence; and enquiry sheets.

Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales correspondence not directly addressed to or from Jen Wilson, the material including enquiries/requests from musicians, music students and others and discussion of insurance claim, 1993, relating to theft of items from the jazz archive.

General administrative material relating to the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz, including management/team structures; lists of staff, trustees and outside contacts; job descriptions and resumés; proposed business development plans and project briefs; policy statements; enquiry sheets; and correspondence.

General material relating to Jen Wilson's rôle as tutor in Performing Arts and Media Arts within University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education, together with general academic material, including annual reports, newsletter, prospectuses, tutor handbook and correspondence confirming Jen Wilson's appointment as Performing Arts and Media Arts tutor.

Information relating to a book launch event at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, at which Women in Jazz performed. The book in question was titled Fragments from the Dark: Women Writing Home and Self in Wales and the event was organised by Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group and Swansea Women's Asylum Support Group, with all proceeds distributed to refugee charities.

Inscribed plaque denoting that the Women in Jazz/Women's Jazz Archive premises were grant aided by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.

Material relating to the organisation of a visit to Swansea by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, including correspondence, largely between Jen Wilson, Dr Paul Kwami of Fisk University and Uzo Iwobi, Chair of the African Community Centre (see African/African-Caribbean Art Strategy: African Community Centre); projected expenses relating to the proposed visit; and illustrated history of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's attempt to organise a commemorative celebratory visit to Swansea by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Fisk Jazz Ensemble and the Fisk Race Relations Institute from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, including funding applications for sponsorship and grants; mailing list of potential sponsors/grant providers; projected expenses; copious correspondence, largely between Jen Wilson and potential sponsors/grant providers and between Jen Wilson and representatives of Fisk University; material relating to Fisk University and to the Race Relations Institute; press cuttings and printouts from online sources; and report on the project, which includes the declaration that the planned visit by the Fisk Jubilee Singers was obliged to be cancelled due to lack of funding.

Material relating to Fishguard Jazz Festival 2004 and 2005, at which Women In Jazz performed.

Material relating to a course titled Filming and Recording Swansea's History, run by Jen Wilson in her capacity as one of the Media Arts tutors within University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education.

Material relating to Ffederasiwn Amgueddfeydd ac Orielau Celf Cymru/Federation of Museums and Art Galleries of Wales, including agenda and minutes, report, newsletter and accounts.

Material relating to the Fast Forward project, a multi-media community project which comprised a series of dance, music and video workshops culminating in a public performance. Initial events were held at Glyncorrwg Community Centre in the Afan Valley. The project was funded by the West Glamorgan Drug Prevention Team and University College Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education and was co-ordinated by Jen Wilson.

Material relating to a series of workshops conducted by Women in Jazz at venues in Swansea, Newport and Cardiff as part of the Everywhere In Chains community project, which focused on human slavery and trafficking both historically and in its contemporary context.

Programme of events taking place at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, October - December 1998, which includes details relating to Then - and Now?/Ddoe - a Heddiw?, a one-day conference on Welsh women's history organised by the Welsh Women's Archive, at which Jen Wilson provided musical performance on piano. There is no definite evidence to suggest whether or not Jen Wilson also gave a talk at this conference.

Material relating to an illustrated talk titled How African American Music Came to Wales, presented by Jen Wilson at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 19 March 2010, including talk scripts; Dylan Thomas Centre events programme; and correspondence.

Material relating to the Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite 'Twelve Poems', a piece commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of celebrated Swansea-born poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Composed by Jen Wilson, the Suite comprises jazz settings of twelve of Thomas's poems. The work was performed as part of the Sean Dunne Writer's Festival in Waterford, Ireland, at the 2003 Brecon Jazz Festival and at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, Unviersity of Rio Grande, Ohio; however, funding for a tour of 'Twelve Poems' to mark the Dylan Thomas 100 centenary festival of 2014 was rejected. The material includes copious correspondence; funding applications; projected expenses; list of potential performance venues; enquiry sheets; press releases and previews; posters; concert programmes; performance contracts; and press cuttings; together with general material relating to Dylan Thomas and Dylan Thomas festivals.

Playlist relating to a performance by Women in Jazz at the Dove Workshop Summer Music Festival, 22 June 2007.

Flyer relating to Women in Jazz Allstars Swing Band's performance at the Dove Workshop, an International Women's Day event held 7 March 2008.

Material relating to the Diversity Awards Wales 2003 ceremony held at the Brangwyn Hall, The Guildhall, Swansea, 25 October 2003, at which Women in Jazz won the Best Racial Diversity Practice in Performing Arts category and were runners-up in the Best Racial Diversity Practice by a Voluntary Sector Establishment for their on-going Roots projects. Entertainment at the ceremony included a performance by the Jen Wilson Trio.

Annotated text of what appears to be an article titled 'Discrimination in British Jazz: Issues of Race, Class and Gender Between the Wars 1918-1939'.