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The Newman Arms is a public house and restaurant at 23 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 1NG.
The pub dates back to 1730, and there was once a brothel there. Today, there is an old-fashioned prostitute painted onto a bricked-over upstairs window.
The Newman Arms appears in two of George Orwell's novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Keep the Aspidistra Flying, as well as in Michael Powell's film Peeping Tom.
It was the model for the "Proles" pub in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In 2012, Westminster Council told the pub to serve drinks more slowly (ensuring each transaction is complete before starting a new one), as a condition to retaining their licence.
There is an unofficial blue plaque in honour of the former landlord: "Joe Jenkins, ex-proprietor, poet, bon viveur and Old Git, regularly swore at everybody on these premises".