Where did the Inklings, the literary group linked to C.S. Lewis, often meet?

The Inklings often met at The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford.

The Eagle and Child, commonly called the Bird and Baby, was an Oxford pub associated with the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The pub stands on St Giles’ Street in central Oxford.

The group was not a formal society with a fixed membership or constitution. Its participants read drafts aloud, discussed literature, and exchanged criticism. Meetings also took place in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College, but the Eagle and Child became the best-known public meeting place connected with the group.

The Inklings were active mainly from the 1930s into the 1940s and early 1950s. Their discussions coincided with the development of major works, including Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s religious and imaginative writing. The pub’s association with them makes it a literary landmark, although not every gathering occurred there and the group’s membership changed over time.