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Script of illustrated talk titled Café Society, presented by Jen Wilson at Swansea Museum, 21 October 2016.

Material relating to talks/presentations given by Jen Wilson to groups of people in Britain and the United States, including seminar delegates, members of societies, academics, festivals-goers and students. Some talks, or talks bearing a similar content, are given at more than one event. Conferences which Jen Wilson attended (or presumably attended) without apparently giving talks/presentations are also included.

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.

Papers of the Jazz Heritage Wales archive, comprising material relating to what was initially known as the Women's Jazz Archive, later Women in Jazz, and finally Jazz Heritage Wales, which reflect the archive's founding and development, its aims and objectives and its wide-ranging involvement in the field of contemporary and historical jazz music. Together with material relating to the archive's founder Jen Wilson, reflecting her interest, involvement and personal achievements in the fields of music, media, education and history, particularly women's social history. The archive also includes material relating to organisations and projects in which Jen Wilson participated but for which she was not solely responsible.

Material reflecting Jen Wilson's involvement in the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales and in related fields such as adult education, the conference circuit, the media and musical and historical organisations such as the Musicians' Union, Women in Music and the Swansea Women's History Group, as well as material relating to personal achievements such as awards, fellowships and published works; together with personal correspondence and notes/research relating to her work and her interest in jazz music and history, particularly women's social history.

Annotated notes relating to an illustrated talk by Jen Wilson titled Jazz: The Devil's Music in Wales: From Hot to Swing, presented at Swansea Festival of Music, 3 October 2016.

Script relating to Jen Wilson's talk on Jazz in Wales, presented to the University of the Third Age (U3A) at Sketty Park, Swansea, 19 November 2015.

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.

Script and photocopied poster relating to a talk titled The Relevance of Interdisciplinary Research at Jazz Heritage Wales, presented by Jen Wilson at the Alex Building, Swansea College of Art, 3 December 2015.

Material relating to tours, concerts, festivals and other performance events given by members of Women in Jazz under various stage names such as the Roots Trio, the Women in Jazz Allstars and Wilson & Morgan's Café Society Ensemble, together with events participated in or organised by Women in Jazz, or with which they were associated.

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

Notes relating to a multi-media presentation on jazz music during World War I given by Jen Wilson and others at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea as part of Black History Month, 19 October 2014.

Draft and fair copies of Jen Wilson's presentation to Swansea International Jazz Festival 2014, titled Jazz in Wales 1919-1939: Fascists, Feminists, Fashion, Religion.

Material relating to funding applications made by the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales to the Arts Council of Wales, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, the Heritage Lottery Fund and others, including application forms, correspondence, reports and accounts; together with inscribed plaque awarded to Women in Jazz by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.

Published items by Jen Wilson, including mainly jazz-related articles for magazines and anthologies; her MSc (Econ) University of Wales dissertation Syncopated Ladies; and her Millennium Award-funded publication African American Music in Swansea 1850-2001.

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 Jazz Heritage Wales's Tower Ballroom Project, which involved the collection of local people's reminiscences, anecdotes, photographs, etc about the Tower Ballroom, Swansea, these to be used in exhibitions at both Jazz Heritage Wales and the Phoenix Centre, Swansea. Together with material relating to performances by the Women in Jazz Allstars Swing Band at a Vintage Dance held 23 March 2012 at Townhill Community Centre, Swansea as part of the Tower Ballroom Project.

Undated material relating to funding applications made by the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales.

Administrative material relating to Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales, comprising details of Board of Trustees meetings; reports; accounts; correspondence; general administrative material; and alphabetised index cards.

Material mainly comprising details relating to Women in Jazz Board of Trustees meetings, with related correspondence.