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Photocopied letter relating to Jen Wilson's nomination of Derek Gabriel for the Wales Volunteer of the Year Award 2007.

Material relating to the Welsh Jazz Society, later known as Jazz Services Wales, including correspondence; funding information; accounts and expenses; agendas and minutes; reports; and development programmes; together with material relating to the Jazz Research Network.

Material relating to a Welsh Women's Archive half day conference and celebration dinner held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, at which Jen Wilson provided musical entertainment.

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 the BBC Radio 4 programme Women in Jazz, presented by Women's Jazz Archive patron Dame Cleo Laine and aired 22 August 2006.

Material relating to a course titled Women In Jazz, run by Jen Wilson in her capacity as one of the Performing Arts tutors within University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education.

Material relating to events held to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz, highlighted by a gala evening at Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre featuring Women in Jazz patron Dame Cleo Laine, which also included a performance of Before Freedom; together with material relating to funding for the anniversary events. The gala evening coincided with events to mark Black History Month in October 2006.

Draft article by Jen Wilson titled 'Women in Jazz: Heroines or Victims?'.

Text of article by Jen Wilson titled 'Jazzing the Hwyl: Women in Wales and the African American Legacy 1850-1935', which appeared in Women in Jazz/Donne in Jazz (ed. Fondazione Adkins Chiti); Donne in Music, Editore Colombo, International Music Council, Ministero per I Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Universita degli Studi 'Roma Tre' (2008).

Material relating to Women in Music, of which Jen Wilson/Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz was a member, including newsletters; details of Annual General Meetings; members' lists; details relating to the Women in Music Commissioning Fund; and correspondence.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's talk, titled Syncopated Ladies, given at the Women in Music Annual General Meeting held at Battersea Arts Centre, 16 November 1996, comprising letter to Jen Wilson from Women in Music; press cutting relating to Jen Wilson's talk; press release; and detailed preparatory notes by Jen Wilson.

Flyer and poster relating to WomenCentreStage, an event celebrating International Women's Day held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 5 March 2008, at which Women in Jazz Allstars Swing Band performed.

Poster relating to University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education's second Women's History Day School held at Onllwyn Miners' Welfare Hall, 3 May 1986, at which Jen Wilson gave a multi-media presentation on Jazz Women.

Papers relating to the Women's Jazz Archive oral history project, largely comprising transcribed interviews and correspondence, including material relating to the official opening of the archive on 26 June 1993; material relating to prominent archive contributors Blanche Finlay, Ottilie Patterson and Elaine Delmar; and material relating to the Heritage Lottery Funded project Wales, Slavery and Music - the Unknown Inheritance (for which see also Funding: 2004).

Material relating to Jen Wilson's rôle as tutor of the one-year Women's Media Studies course at University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education, including course outline, assignment questions, book list and lecture notes.

Material relating to the Women's National Commission, including independent analysis relating to Government initiatives regarding violence against women, November 2006; WNC findings relating to domestic violence against women, 2003; information booklets and brochures; and details relating to WNC seminar, October 2007.

Material relating to the Women's Revolutions Per Minute (WRPM) collection of music by women, including sales catalogues, invoice and correspondence.

Material relating to Women in Jazz's performance at a conference organised by The Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology titled Women's Ways, held at Trinity College, Carmarthen, 16-18 July 1993.

Correspondence relating to talk titled Historical Memories, presented by Jen Wilson to the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) South Wales (Pontarddulais and Hendy Branch) at the Mechanics' Institute, Pontarddulais, 30 March 2000.

Material relating to music workshops participated in or organised by the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz. Many of the workshops were linked to community projects and multi-cultural events, some of which involved young people, particularly those with disabilities.