Hello, I am currently trying to rebuild a model replica (or rather interpretation) of Cabot's Matthew. For that reason i want to know a bit more about the explorer and the current state of the historical research regarding him.
Have there been any recent archeological or historical research papers about him, his expeditions or some new revelations about his vessel?
I would love to be wrong, but I think there aren't many new revelations about it.
Not sure what consitutes "recent" for you, but the 2006 paper "The Matthew of Bristol and the Financiers of John Cabot's 1497 Voyage to North America" by Evan Jones among other things restates all we know about the ship. And it's very little.
Basically we have some written accounts (Like "John Day's letter) that it was a ship of 50 tonels (tons burden) and it was crewed by around 20 men, and that's pretty much it. This actually fits in the all encompassing dearth of information we have about 15th and early 16th century ships, as we also really don't know how Columbus or Da Gama ships looked like. Still, the article linked is a nice source for reading about what we know and lists references about Mathew from the records.
From other works I think 1996 Peter E. Pope's book "The Many Landfalls of John Cabot" is the most recent academic work on the subject, and you could look into that one for more details
I know it is not much, but hope it somewhat helps