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Enquiry sheets and email correspondence relating to Jen Wilson's participation in the BBC Radio 3 programme Above The Title, which discussed women band leaders; together with Christmas card to Jen Wilson from Pete Atkin, the programme's producer.

Material mainly comprising job applications and curricula vitae compiled by Jen Wilson, detailing employment history, specialist skills, awards received, published works, etc.

Manuscript and typewritten notes by Jen Wilson, mainly relating to women and/or music within a historical context.

Material relating to Honno Welsh Women's Press, in which Jen Wilson was a shareholder, including meeting agendas and minutes; details relating to a day of events to celebrate Honno's eighteenth year of publishing; and correspondence.

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

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'.

Correspondence between Jen Wilson and John Barnie, editor of Planet magazine, relating to Jen Wilson's article 'Wales and Negro Minstrelsy: a socio-cultural interchange 1830-1910', which appeared in the June 2006 edition.

Material relating to article by Jen Wilson titled 'Zen and the Art of Thelonious Monk', contributed to On My Life: Women's Writing from Wales (ed. Leigh Verrill-Rhys; Honno Press (1989)), including agreement relating to publication of article; correspondence from Honno Press, the Arts Council of Wales and Seren Press, the latter relating to the inclusion of Jen Wilson's article in A Swansea Anthology (ed. James A. Davies (1996)); reviews; and dust jacket of On My Life.

Material relating to an article by Jen Wilson titled 'A Sociocultural and Historical Perspective, and its relevance to Popular Culture, of the Bed belonging to Haulwen Mary and William John Evans of Swansea, now deceased', published in SWAGMag No. 4 [1995], the periodic magazine of the Swansea Writers' and Artists' Group (SWAG), comprising annotated text of article; copy of SWAGMag No. 4; and letter from Honno Press suggesting Jen Wilson contribute a piece for a forthcoming collection of women's writings (later published as Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s (ed. Deirdre Beddoe, Honno Press, 2003).

Material relating to Jen Wilson's article 'Redefining the Sixties Myth: Letters Home to Swansea', contributed to Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s (ed. Deirdre Beddoe, Honno Press, 2003), including annotated draft texts of article; photocopied contents page of Changing Times; and correspondence addressed to Jen Wilson from Honno Press.

Material relating to the publication of Those Saturday Nights: The Story of Swansea's Tower Ballroom (2013), a bilingual volume of history and reminiscences about Swansea's famous venue edited by Jen Wilson. The project was funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

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 MSc (Econ) dissertation thesis titled Syncopated Ladies: British Jazzwomen 1880-1995 and their influence on popular culture (University College of Wales, Swansea, 10 July 1996), including abstract of thesis; bound and unbound copies of completed thesis; notes and research; material relating to grant application (grant awarded by the Arts Council of Wales, March 1997); and correspondence, mainly with publishers, discussing possible publication of Syncopated Ladies in book form.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's publication African-American Music in Swansea 1850-2001, which was funded by the Swansea Citizenship Millennium Award of 2001, including draft texts of proposed publication and research notes; together with material relating to the Millennium Awards scheme and to Jen Wilson's successful bid for funding.

Material relating to an article by Mike Dewe titled 'Oh, Didn't She Ramble! Jen Wilson and the Women in Jazz Archive', published in Planet magazine, 2003, comprising transcribed interview with Jen Wilson and correspondence between Jen Wilson and Mike Dewe.

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 Jen Wilson's (failed) application for a fellowship within the Clore Leadership Programme for 2004-5, including completed application forms and correspondence.

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 Swansea Women's History Group, of which Jen Wilson was a member, including a significant amount of material relating to Swansea during the Second World War, with a particular focus on the rôle of women in wartime.

Material relating to the Arts & Business Cymru Investment Programme, largely comprising information regarding the programme and evidence of Jen Wilson's work towards nomination for the Arts & Business Cymru Award.