[11][12] The business is currently owned by the Ellison Institute of Technology, who plan to reopen it as a pub,[13] with the upper floors converted to meeting rooms.

From late 1933, they met on Thursday evenings at Lewis's college rooms at Magdalen, where they would read and discuss various material, including their unfinished manuscripts.

When The Eagle and Child was modernised in 1962, with the pub being extended to the rear, the Rabbit Room's former privacy was inevitably destroyed; the group reluctantly changed its allegiance to the Lamb & Flag on the other side of St Giles'.

[24] The Eagle and Child featured in Colin Dexter's novel The Secret of Annexe 3, in which Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis read the wooden plaque to the Inklings in the pub's back bar.

[26] The pub is the meeting place of the main characters and a 1906 suffragette planning session in Pip Williams' best-selling 2020 debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words.