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[[File:288-2017-02.JPG|frame|February 2017: The City Arms pub basks in morning sunlight, showing off the splendid brickwork.]]
==20171930s-present== The present building was constructed in the late 1930s as an ‘improved public house’, part of a move by breweries in the interwar years to signal the higher status of pubgoing as a social activity.<ref name="cityHeritage">https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/1549/the_city_arms_cowley_road</ref> It is now known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain. ==1870s-1930s== A public House called the University and City Arms was recorded at this location in Kelly’s Directory of 1876 and is shown on the Ordance Survey map of 1878.<ref name="cityHeritage"/>
==Before then?==