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Letters, emails, cards and Christmas cards to or from Jen Wilson and/or the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales, including sympathy cards and letters sent to Jen Wilson on the occasion of her mother's death. Correspondents include friends and colleagues in the music business; venues at which Jen Wilson and/or Women in Jazz performed, exhibited or otherwise participated; and organisations with which Jen Wilson collaborated or held membership, including Jazz Services and the British Institute of Jazz Studies.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's contribution as one of the tutors on a course of lectures given by University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education to a group of university students from Tennessee, the lecture topics centering around Welsh language and history.

Material relating to Suite for Trumpet, Harp and Bass, a piece commissioned by University College Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education and composed by trumpeter Cris Haines to mark the 1995 Year of Literature; together with general material relating to Cris Haines and his work

Material relating to an exhibition titled Crossing Oceans: Wales, Slavery and its Music. The exhibition depicted a selection of contemporary female vocalists of colour which included Dame Cleo Laine, patron of Women in Jazz, Elaine Delmar and Patti Flynn.

Material relating to tours of venues in West Virginia made by a combined Welsh and West Virginian musical ensemble called Jen Wilson And Her New Friends, focusing in particular on the Historic Fayette Theatre in Fayetteville, West Virginia; together with material relating to tours of Wales and the Welsh valleys of Coal Camp Memories, an original one-woman production by the American storyteller, actor and writer Karen Vuranch. The material includes copious correspondence, largely between Jen Wilson and Karen Vuranch; funding applications; projected expenses; press release; concert flyers; performance schedules; material relating to Karen Vuranch and Coal Camp Memories; itinerary of the 2001 Wales tour and tour report; press cuttings, including those relating to a West Virginia tour by Swansea musical duo The Amigos; airline tickets and travel information; and an academic essay, 1994, by Karen Vuranch titled The Influence of the Welsh Immigrants on the Development of the Coal Fields.

Material relating to a Cultural Studies conference titled From Pop to Postmodernism? held at Crew & Alsager College of Higher Education, Crewe, 28 November 1992, including conference schedules; rough notes made by Jen Wilson; and correspondence. Although Jen Wilson appears to have attended the conference, there is no evidence that she gave any formal presentation.

Material relating to an illustrated talk titled A Nobler Strife: Swansea Abolitionists and the Cincinnati Trail, 1820-1907, presented by Jen Wilson to Cwmdulais Historical Society at Canolfan, Seven Sisters, 9 April 2009, including Cwmdulais Historical Society programme of events and correspondence.

Material relating to a multi-media presentation titled Back to the Front Line: Women at Bridgend Munitions Factory, 1938-1946, given by Jen Wilson to Cwmdulais Historical Society at Canolfan, Seven Sisters, 10 March 1993, including events programme and booking form.

Material relating to Cyfansoddwyr Cymru/Composers of Wales, of which Jen Wilson was a member, including newsletters and reports; 2006 Vale of Glamorgan Festival of Music programme; details of seminar; and correspondence.

Material relating to Cymdeithas Celfyddydau Menywod/Women's Arts Association, including newsletters; flyers; Gregynog Festival programme; list of potential funding sources; and correspondence.

Material relating to the S4C television series Cymru Ddu: Hanes Pobl Dduon Cymru/Black Wales: A History of Black Welsh People (2005), for which Jen Wilson acted in the capacity of music and history consultant; together with some references to Alan Llwyd's book titled Cymru Ddu/Black Wales: A History, published in conjunction with the television series.

Material relating to the DACE (Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band course run by Performing Arts tutors Jen Wilson, Cris Haines and others, together with material relating to Jen Wilson's nomination of Cris Haines for an Adult Tutor Award in 2003.

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'.

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.

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 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.

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 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.