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Material relating to Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales, including newsletters, agendas and minutes, annual reports, conference schedules and correspondence.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's article 'Devil's Music, Swansea Clerics and the W.I.', published in Planet magazine, December 1998, comprising draft and fair copies of article; photocopied section of published article; correspondence between Jen Wilson and Planet magazine; and correspondence relating to research material and to copyright of illustrations used within the article.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's participation in the HTV Wales television series Your Century, the episode in question transmitted 27 October 1998.

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.

Letter and booking agreement relating to Jen Wilson's performance at a Jazz Poetry & Blues event, part of the Welsh Academy's first Cardiff Bay Literature Festival, 2000.

Material relating to the Dodgy Jammers' musical performance work with disabled young people at the Stackpole Centre, Pembrokeshire, 25-26 November 1999.

Material relating to entries contributed by Jen Wilson to the The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (2008), including agreements for the writing and contribution of entries; notes for contributors; texts of Jen Wilson's entries; notes towards the writing of entries; correspondence addressed to Jen Wilson from editors Nigel Jenkins and Menna Baines; and printed invitation to launch of publication. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales was edited by writer and editor Menna Baines, poet and writer Nigel Jenkins and historian and author John Davies and was published in January 2008. Jen Wilson's contributions to the publication centred around jazz music and jazz musicians.

Material relating to a promotion concert featuring Jen Wilson and others, staged by Jazz FM radio station in the course of their bid for a new radio licence in South Wales; together with a printed programme relating to Jazz FM's 10th Anniversary concert held at the Barbican Centre, 3 March 2000.

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.

Material relating to the Soundzwild Kilvey Music Festival, held at Swansea Eastside, Kilvey, Swansea, 14-15 August 1999.

Exhibitions organised and staged by Women in Jazz, largely focusing on the influences of African-American music and the rôle of women in jazz music.

Material relating to a proposed musical workshop/performance by the Dodgy Jammers titled Jamalot which was to have been held at Swansea Castle, 10 September 1999, but which was cancelled at the last minute.

Material relating to events held at Butetown History & Arts Centre, Cardiff, including programmes of events; exhibition panel text; flyer; newsletter; notice of Annual General Meeting; and correspondence.

Material relating to Women in Jazz's participation in Black History Month, especially their involvement with Channel 4's Black History Map of Britain website, launched 1 October 2000 for Black History Month, including festival programme; press release; poster and flyer; exhibition texts; printouts and press cuttings; correspondence; and enquiry sheets. Together with material relating to Butetown History & Arts Centre's celebration of Black History Month 1999, 2001 and 2004, and postcards and press cutting relating to Butetown's mixed-race history.

The events marking Black History Month October 2006 coincided with celebrations to mark Women in Jazz's 20th anniversary, which were highlighted by a gala evening featuring Women in Jazz patron Dame Cleo Laine - for which see Women in Jazz 20th Anniversary events.

Material relating to an exhibition by the Women's Jazz Archive titled Women At Work, shown at Swansea Museum and Swansea Central Library, March-April 1999.

Material relating to an integrated arts project with people with learning disabilities which involved Take This Integrated Dance Company from Swansea, Fuse Integrated Dance Company, based at Theatr Clwyd, Mold, community dance project Dawns TAN/TAN Dance and musical group the Dodgy Jammers.

Material relating to a series of multi-cultural arts projects which took place in schools in Denbighshire over a period of two years.

Material relating to the blues and poetry band The Salubrious Rhythm Company, of which Jen Wilson was a member, including posters and flyers; playlists, poetry and song lyrics; press cuttings; and correspondence, largely between band members.

Material relating to the 6th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference, held at Leeds College of Music, 10-11 April 2000, including conference flyer; minutes of the Jazz Archives meeting held at LCM, 11 April 2000; and correspondence, from which it appears that Jen Wilson had been invited to the Jazz Archives meeting and to give a presentation (titled The Devil's Music in Wales: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Race, Class and Gender 1859-1939) at this conference but was forced to withdraw after her funding application to the Arts Council of Wales was rejected.

Material relating to a performance by the Jenny Wilson Trio at a Swansea Jazzland event held at St James' Club, Swansea, 25 October 2000.