On 23 June 2015 Anne Worrall, Professor Emerita of Criminology, Keele University delivered the 18th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture entitled 'Grace under Pressure: The Role of Courage in the Future of Probation Work'. This is the eighteenth of a series of annual memorial lectures given in the spirit of Bill McWilliams’s work. The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is supported by the Clarke Hall Fund, the Barrow Cadbury Trust and the late Hugh Sanders OBE. For more information about the lecture, please contact Mrs Joanne Garner, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, 01223 335360, jf225@cam.ac.uk